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

But I definitely wouldn't say that its standard has been written with optimization in mind. 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. 23:32; Blogger ern said Awesome. Scheme is probably easier to implement than CL, because it is much, much smaller. €It is widely held among members of the MIT Lisp community that FEXPR, NLAMBDA, and related concepts could be omitted from the Lisp language with no loss of generality and little loss of expressive power, and that doing so would make a general improvement in the quality and reliability of program-manipulating programs.” . Http://hop.inria.fr/ multi-tier programming language for the Web 2.0 and the so-called diffuse Web; Lisp in Small Piecesの著者でもある. Am cherry-picking my way through Queinnec's Lisp in Small Pieces, and your syntax-case exposition is exactly what I needed to introduce dynamic bindings. I have developed what I call the “Hawaii” test for a good literate program. See “Lisp in Small Pieces” or “Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography” for real literate programs as books. Queineec, C., Lisp in small pieces, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1996.