LISP in small pieces by Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway

LISP in small pieces Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway ebook
Format: djvu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Page: 526
ISBN: 0521562473, 9780521562478

It looks like the Lisp In Small Pieces for $3.95 craze has met its end. Do any of these topics have better books? What books have people read and found to be really good? In Lisp In Small Pieces, Christian states that assignment, side-effects, and continuations break referential transparency. Currently Lisp in Small Pieces is number 3. One of my New Year's goals is to re-read Lisp in Small Pieces and implement all 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. I have developed what I call the “Hawaii” test for a good literate program. For awhile last week the book Lisp in Small Pieces was the best selling book on the Canada Amazon.com website, out selling Harry Potter. Lisp in Small Pieces is like that; it's more about a cute way to teach things that bends the mind than having fun in exploring design trade-offs. The book is no longer listed with a price, nor is it listed as available, except from other sellers. I have also read good reviews on Lisp in small pieces and Advanced C programming. But one, day I found a nice small piece of lisp which allow me simplify the process. In other words, it is not really about truly building models. See “Lisp in Small Pieces” or “Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography” for real literate programs as books. What features from R5RS would have to be removed if one wanted a referentially transparent scheme?