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

See “Lisp in Small Pieces” or “Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography” for real literate programs as books. I refer you to the excellent book "Lisp in Small Pieces". Literate, Racket-Styled Interpreter from Ch. You might not care about Lisp but this is an excellent example of literate programming. A guy I know ordered it and he reports it's a full, normal copy. Quote first: (define quote-expression? I would add "Lisp In Small Pieces" by Christian Queinnec. 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. 23:32; Blogger ern said Awesome. Lisp In Small Pieces supports only quote , if , begin , set! Building a Lisp compiler (and environment) can be quite different from building a C or Pascal compiler. For some reason, amazon.ca has Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec for CDN$3.95. Lisp in Small Pieces builds entire compilers ;; based upon this idea. Am cherry-picking my way through Queinnec's Lisp in Small Pieces, and your syntax-case exposition is exactly what I needed to introduce dynamic bindings. I have developed what I call the “Hawaii” test for a good literate program. Homoiconicity is what makes lisp so appealing to me, ;; far more than most other languages. 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. Posted by aspo at 10:17 PM on April 1, 2009.