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

Queineec, C., Lisp in small pieces, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1996. €�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.” . See Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec. Lisp in Small Pieces builds entire compilers ;; based upon this idea. Get Queinnec's "Lisp in Small Pieces". (I hope to understand "Lisp in Small Pieces" someday. The book is just under 500 pages of bootstrap. First, you can take a small piece of cereal like a Cheerio and put it on the roof of your mouth, just behind your teeth. So one would expect that the probability of buying the "Blue Book" given a purchase of the "Lisp in Small Pieces" would be much higher than the probability of purchasing Harry Potter. Chapter 5 of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and chapter 7 of Lisp in Small Pieces both present byte-code interpreting virtual machines for Scheme that are implemented in Scheme. There are exercises you can do to get rid of your lisp. 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. It was written by someone who knows his stuff and knows how to teach it. If you are writing code that needs to live and is critical to the organization, hire literate programmers and an English major as an editor-in-chief. Homoiconicity is what makes lisp so appealing to me, ;; far more than most other languages.