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The Little LISPer - 3rd Edition

By Matthias Felleisen , Daniel P. Friedman

Book information

Publisher
Longman Higher Education
Year
1989
ISBN
0574240055, 9780574240057
LCC
QA76.73.L23 F74 1989
Open Library ID
OL2059686M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1696606 bytes)
Edition
3rd edition
Pages
220\220
DPI
600
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

There are surprises in store for the diligent reader of this masterful introduction to recursion as a fundamental tool for expressing and solving problems. With wit and wisdom, The Little LISPer unfolds some of the most beautiful concepts in mathematics, computer science, and logic. The authors' goal is to show that recursive thinking is first of all fun, that it is powerful, and that the programming language Lisp allows one to express ideas recursively and naturally. There are hard problems along the way, but their solution brings mastery of recursive, functional, and meta-linguistic abstractions, developing skills in the underlying creative programming in Lisp. The Little LISPer is self-contained: an interpreter for the language is developed using the tools of the book itself .

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