Lisp in Small Pieces

Name: Lisp in Small Pieces
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ISBN: 9780521545662

ISBN-10: 0521545668

ISBN-13: 9780521545662

Edition: 2003

Authors: Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway

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This is a comprehensive account of the semantics and the implementation of the whole Lisp family of languages, namely Lisp, Scheme and related dialects. It describes 11 interpreters and 2 compilers, including very recent techniques of interpretation and compilation. The book is in two parts. The first starts from a simple evaluation function and enriches it with multiple name spaces, continuations and side-effects with commented variants, while at the same time the language used to define these features is reduced to a simple lambda-calculus. Denotational semantics is then naturally introduced. The second part focuses more on implementation techniques and discusses precompilation for fast…

Book details

List price: $109.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 536
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.69" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 2.112
Language: English



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