Anatomy of Lisp (McGraw-Hill computer science series) XVIII- 446 pgs 1978 McGraw Hill Book Company Edition

by John Allen (Author)

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Publisher : McGraw-Hill College; XVIII- 446 pgs 1978 McGraw Hill Book Company edition (June 1, 1980)
Language : English
Hardcover : 446 pages
ISBN-10 : 007001115X
ISBN-13 : 978-0070011151
Item Weight : 2.28 pounds

Best Sellers Rank: #1,506,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #79 in Lisp Programming
- #5,266 in Reference (Books)
- #11,802 in Computer Science (Books)

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AMS

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Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2015

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Excellent. Ranks near the top, with Lisp In Small Pieces.

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Mayer Goldberg

The most intelligent book ever written on LISP

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2008

This book is not up to date, this book is out-of-print, but if you're a lisp or scheme hacker you owe it to yourself to get a copy of this book any [legal] way you can. This is by far the most intelligent book ever written on LISP.

The book starts with the basics of symbolic computing, and then moves on: a detailed analysis of syntax (without taking any shortcuts on sexprs), interpretation, [a hasty introduction to] the lambda calculus, denotational semantics (!), compilation and code generation, the top-level and the run-time environment, including garbage collection. Special emphasis is placed on imperative LISP. All this described in 446 pages of a single book. This book packs about 5-6 different university courses in a single volume! The level of the discussion is high, there are plenty of examples of real code, but thankfully the author avoids many of the pitfalls of later books on Scheme and functional programming: (1) He doesn't employ the "running example" approach to writing computer books: Each example is small, very focused, and the discussion remains academic. (2) Formalisms are explained in quasi-mathematical lambda-notation, rather than by dumping source code on the poor reader.

This is a very rich source. The book discusses issues that other authors typically punt: labels and goto, side effects on constants (this is the ONLY book that mentions a problem known as The Anomaly of Quote), etc.

This is an old book, and it does not mention hygienic macro systems, continuations, object orientation, and other more recent topics. Nevertheless, while there are some awesome books written on LISP and Scheme, the Anatomy of LISP is by a far stretch the best written and most intelligently written.

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Apalala

Essential Reading about Functional Programming

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2003

This is a beautiful book about the essense of LISP, functional programming, and interpreters.
The author takes the reader through a journey of discovery of the concepts behind functional languages, working his way from atoms, to S-expressions, to lists, to lambda calculus and functions, and then to environments, early and lazy evaluation, and, finally, into the construction of a LISP interpreter using LISP itself.
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the fundamental concepts behind computing and programming.

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peter jeffs

Such great writing and such a knowledgeable author

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2016

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What a book. Can't put it down. Such great writing and such a knowledgeable author. Has exceeded all my expectations. A real gem of a book that takes pride of place in my Lisp library. Love it!

Joao Coelho

not opened the book

Reviewed in Germany on May 9, 2020

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i received it on time but i have not yet even opened the book. I bought it just for the pleasure of owing a piece of history in the walls of programming languages.

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