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

Christian Quenniac's Lisp in Small Pieces is a good reference for interpreting and compiling Lisp. I am actually selling these items so I can pay Dreamhost for another year of hosting, so it's for a good cause. Click here to download: scheme1.ss (5 KB). For about a day it was selling better than Harry Potter. One of my New Year's goals is to re-read Lisp in Small Pieces and implement all 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. One of the best approach to language implementation I ever came across! Lisp: An interpreter for the Scheme dialect. Easy to compile (most implementations of Lisp are written almost or entirely in Lisp, and the “reference” implementations usually include a compiler – see Sussmann's Scheme book or 'LiSP in Small Pieces' for examples). Got started on a major preoccupation - a deep study of Lisp In Small Pieces. 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. My faithful readers, will get to see them first. Amazon.ca was having an unexpected sale on Lisp in Small Pieces, one of the best books on implementing lisp. 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. Java: Written in If you want a mercilessly small, easily modifiable version, this is it.