LISP in small pieces Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Literate, Racket-Styled Interpreter from Ch. Homoiconicity is what makes lisp so appealing to me, ;; far more than most other languages. And back to the subject at hand, while it's not available for free on the web, if you love these kinds of CS books, Lisp In Small Pieces needs a place on your CS bookshelf. Writing a recursive function to perform that calculation is pretty straight forward, and once we put all of these pieces together in our create-world routine, we have a working proof of concept. Quote first: (define quote-expression? €�One of my New Year's goals is to re-read Lisp in Small Pieces and implement all 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. Http://hop.inria.fr/ multi-tier programming language for the Web 2.0 and the so-called diffuse Web; Lisp in Small Piecesの著者でもある. Posted by aspo at 10:17 PM on April 1, 2009. Especially if "advanced" means "higher" position ;) – Heartless Angel Jan 22 '09 at 5:16 +1 for the first set, these are great books to add to the collection. Lisp in Small Pieces builds entire compilers ;; based upon this idea. Caveat: this is not a best-of nor a comprehensive list of Lisp books; it is merely a selection of Lisp books you may not have heard of or that special to me in some way. Chapter 5 of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and chapter 7 of Lisp in Small Pieces both present byte-code interpreting virtual machines for Scheme that are implemented in Scheme. Lisp In Small Pieces supports only quote , if , begin , set! The following code snipped from the REPL prompt We're glossing over a few details here, but if you have a little experience working with Lisp then you should have a pretty good idea of how to implement the above.