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| Category: | General - Books | By: | Prentice Hall |
| More info: | www.prenhall.com ... | Author(s): | Paul Graham |
| Pages: | 432 | Year of publication: | 1996 |
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For use as a core text supplement in any course covering common LISP such as Artificial Intelligence or Concepts of Programming Languages. Teaching students new ways of thinking about programs, this text contains a tutorial - full of examples - that explains the concepts of Lisp programming, plus a summary of ANSI Common Lisp, listing every operator in the language. Informative and fun, it gives students everything they need to start writing programs in Lisp and highlights Lisp features as automatic memory management, manifest typing, & closures. This introduction to common LISP: Divides material into 2 parts: the tutorial half of the book: covers the essential core of Common Lisp; Sums up lessons of preceding chapters in 2 examples of real applications: a backward-chainer, and an embedded language for object-oriented programming; A reference consisting of 3 appendices, the summary half of the text: gives source code for a widely used Common Lisp operators, with definitions that offer an explanation of the language and provide a source of real examples; Summarizes differences between ANSI Common Lisp and Common Lisp as it was originally defined in 1984; Contains a description of every function, macro, and special operator in ANSI Common Lisp; Concludes with a section of notes containing clarifications, references, and additional code.