News about the LiSP book
These are comments on my book gleaned from the news. Thanks to all the contributors.From: wilson@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: Your opinion of Queinnec's _Lisp in Small Pieces_ ? Date: 14 Nov 1996 13:32:58 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Lines: 38 References: <56fgmg$8vj@access1.digex.net> Ident-User: wilson In article <56fgmg$8vj@access1.digex.net>, M. Thomas <thommark@access1.digex.net> wrote: >Would anyone care to give an opinion/mini-review of this book, or >point me to a review? Looks very interesting, but I just perused it >briefly. It seems to be a useful compendium of techniques and >insights for designers of interpreters and compilers (and hence for >programmers as well). I think it's quite good, though sometimes a little forbidding just because of its thoroughness. It has a high branching factor, showing alternative language design choices and/or implementation strategies in many places. Newbies are likely to get a little dazed if they don't take it slowly. If you have any trouble with Queinnec's book---which gets pretty advanced pretty fast---you might want to start with my online draft of (most of) _Introduction_to_Scheme_and_its_Implementation_, and then graduate to _Lisp_in_Small_Pieces_. My _Intro_ has a gentle introduction to Scheme and pictures of a bunch of the basic stuff, which should help if Queinnec's text is too dense. (See http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/oops/ for a pointer to my intro. Be sure to start with the html version, which is more up to date than the old ascii course notes.) This is not in any way a criticism of _Lisp_in_Small_Pieces_, which is something the world has very much needed since _Anatomy_of_Lisp_ became obsolete a very long time ago. (It's authoritative and thorough, where my intro tries to get across the basics as accessibly as possible.) In all, I'd say that Queinnec's book is something that every advanced Lisper/Schemer should own, especially anybody who implements programming languages. LOTS of good stuff there, and the working code for it. -- | Paul R. Wilson, Comp. Sci. Dept., U of Texas @ Austin (wilson@cs.utexas.edu) | Papers on memory allocators, garbage collection, memory hierarchies, | persistence and Scheme interpreters and compilers available via ftp from | ftp.cs.utexas.edu, in pub/garbage http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wilson/
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