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

Lisp in Small Pieces builds entire compilers ;; based upon this idea. I bought Lisp In Small Pieces, read 19 pages, then struck out on my own, writing a headcase macro to factor out the repetition from the SICP code, and an interpreter. Homoiconicity is what makes lisp so appealing to me, ;; far more than most other languages. For awhile last week the book Lisp in Small Pieces was the best selling book on the Canada Amazon.com website, out selling Harry Potter. Lisp In Small Pieces supports only quote , if , begin , set! Literate, Racket-Styled Interpreter from Ch. €�One of my New Year's goals is to re-read Lisp in Small Pieces and implement all 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. Currently Lisp in Small Pieces is number 3. See "http://daly.axiom-developer.org/litprog.html" for an example using HTML. Lisp in Small Pieces Computer Science Programming Languages Lisp Christian Queinnec Cambridge University Press New Ed edition. Quote first: (define quote-expression? The Hawaii test is the key criteria to measure whether your literate program is successful. See "Lisp in Small Pieces" for a great example.