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

Click here to download: scheme1.ss (5 KB). €�It is widely held among members of the MIT Lisp community that FEXPR, NLAMBDA, and related concepts could be omitted from the Lisp language with no loss of generality and little loss of expressive power, and that doing so would make a general improvement in the quality and reliability of program-manipulating programs.” . See Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec. A guy I know ordered it and he reports it's a full, normal copy. I bought Lisp In Small Pieces, read 19 pages, then struck out on my own, writing a headcase macro to factor out the repetition from the SICP code, and an interpreter. See “Lisp in Small Pieces” or “Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography” for real literate programs as books. If you are writing code that needs to live and is critical to the organization, hire literate programmers and an English major as an editor-in-chief. What features from R5RS would have to be removed if one wanted a referentially transparent scheme? Queineec, C., Lisp in small pieces, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1996. 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. In Lisp In Small Pieces, Christian states that assignment, side-effects, and continuations break referential transparency. So one would expect that the probability of buying the "Blue Book" given a purchase of the "Lisp in Small Pieces" would be much higher than the probability of purchasing Harry Potter. For some reason, amazon.ca has Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec for CDN$3.95. This entry was posted in Book by tkg. One of the best approach to language implementation I ever came across! Now, the programming concepts book that I really want would be the successor to Lisp in Small Pieces (ISBN 0-521-56247-3), but AFAICT, it hasn't been finished. Got started on a major preoccupation - a deep study of Lisp In Small Pieces. I have developed what I call the “Hawaii” test for a good literate program.