Little LISPer : Trade Edition

Name: Little LISPer : Trade Edition
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ISBN: 9780262560382

ISBN-10: 0262560380

ISBN-13: 9780262560382

Edition: 1987

Authors: Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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There are surprises in store for the diligent reader of this masterful introduction to recursion as a fundamental tool for expressing and solving problems. With wit and wisdom, The Little LISPerunfolds some of the most beautiful concepts in mathematics, computer science, and logic. The authors' goal is to show that recursive thinking is first of all fun, that it is powerful, and that the programming language Lisp allows one to express ideas recursively and naturally. There are hard problems along the way, but their solution brings mastery of recursive, functional, and meta-linguistic abstractions, developing skills in the underlying creative programming in Lisp. The Little LISPeris…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/5/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Daniel P. Friedman is Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University and is the author of many books published by the MIT Press, including The Little Schemer(fourth edition, 1995), The Seasoned Schemer(1995), A Little Java, A Few Patterns(1997), each of these coauthored with Matthias Felleisen, and The Reasoned Schemer(2005), coauthored with William E. Byrd and Oleg Kiselyov.