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

€�The Anatomy of Lisp” by John Allen. My faithful readers, will get to see them first. See “Lisp in Small Pieces” or “Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography” for real literate programs as books. As discussed in extraordinary detail in Lisp in Small Pieces, but I don't recall whether the latter (or anything else) examines the connection. I doubt I would agree to shell out the $80 it costs had I not had the RAC money in PayPal already. (I hope to understand "Lisp in Small Pieces" someday. Today I made the first order – “Lisp in Small Pieces” – it's just the kind of book to buy as a special present to myself. It seems to me that there is a clear connection with reflective towers, e.g. Building a Lisp compiler (and environment) can be quite different from building a C or Pascal compiler. I'm actually not that fond of TAOCP. 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. Otherwise I would be hard pressed to choose something like The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, The wizard book, or maybe Lisp In Small Pieces. I have developed what I call the “Hawaii” test for a good literate program. One of my New Year's goals is to re-read Lisp in Small Pieces and implement all 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. Christian Queinnec, Lisp in Small Pieces. Kamin, “Programming Languages, An Interpreter-Based Approach”, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1990. I am actually selling these items so I can pay Dreamhost for another year of hosting, so it's for a good cause. Posted by aspo at 10:17 PM on April 1, 2009. I'd have to agree with Jens Axel that “Lisp In Small Pieces”, Christian Queinnec, 1994, first English translation, Cambridge University Press, 1996 is really without peer as far as tesxts go. I would add "Lisp In Small Pieces" by Christian Queinnec. Especially if "advanced" means "higher" position – Heartless Angel Jan 22 '09 at 5:16 +1 for the first set, these are great books to add to the collection.