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Lisp in Small Pieces

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ISBN-10: 0521562473

ISBN-13: 9780521562478

Edition: 1996

Authors: Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway

List price: $104.99
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Description:

This is a comprehensive account of the semantics and the implementation of the whole Lisp family of languages, namely Lisp, Scheme adn related dialects. It describes 11 interpreters and 2 compilers, including very recent techniques.
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Book details

List price: $104.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/28/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 534
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.442

To the reader
The basics of interpretation
Lisp, 1,2,..., w
Escape & return: continuations
Assignment and side effects
Denotational semantics
Fast interpretation
Compilation
Evaluation & reflection
Macros: their use and abuse
Compiling into C
Essence of an object system
Answers to exercises
Bibliography
Index