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

For some reason, amazon.ca has Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec for CDN$3.95. Lisp In Small Pieces supports only quote , if , begin , set! Scheme An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation.pdf. A guy I know ordered it and he reports it's a full, normal copy. The Hawaii test is the key criteria to measure whether your literate program is successful. See "Lisp in Small Pieces" for a great example. 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. Knott.pdf LISP in small pieces - Queinnec C.djvu 8.1. Quote first: (define quote-expression? While I have started reading Lisp in Small Pieces, it hasn't had quite the impact on me. McCarthy He does a great job in Lisp in Small Pieces, but it's building on the foundation that McCarthy layed down. Queineec, C., Lisp in small pieces, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1996. What features from R5RS would have to be removed if one wanted a referentially transparent scheme? See "http://daly.axiom-developer.org/litprog.html" for an example using HTML. I'd have to agree with Jens Axel that “Lisp In Small Pieces”, Christian Queinnec, 1994, first English translation, Cambridge University Press, 1996 is really without peer as far as tesxts go. Homoiconicity is what makes lisp so appealing to me, ;; far more than most other languages. €�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.” . Easy to compile (most implementations of Lisp are written almost or entirely in Lisp, and the “reference” implementations usually include a compiler – see Sussmann's Scheme book or 'LiSP in Small Pieces' for examples). In Lisp In Small Pieces, Christian states that assignment, side-effects, and continuations break referential transparency. Literate, Racket-Styled Interpreter from Ch. Lisp in Small Pieces builds entire compilers ;; based upon this idea.