Paul Graham, Viaweb Inc.

Published September, 1993 by Prentice Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics

Copyright 1994, 413 pp.
Paper
ISBN 0-13-030552-9
$49.00

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Written by a Lisp expert, this is the most comprehensive tutorial on the advanced features of Lisp for experienced programmers. It shows how to program in the bottom-up style that is ideal for Lisp programming, and includes a unique, practical collection of Lisp programming techniques that shows how to take advantage of the language's design for highly efficient programming in a wide variety of (non-AI) applications. KEY TOPICS: Contains comprehensive presentations of key Lisp features: functions, macros, symbols and interning, variables, scope and lexical closures; object-oriented programming, data structures, and Lisp style.

1. The Extensible Language.
2. Functions.
3. Functional Programming.
4. Utility Functions.
5. Returning Functions.
6. Functions as Representation.
7. Macros.
8. When to Use Macros.
9. Variable Capture.
10. Other Macro Pitfalls.
11. Classic Macros.
12. Generalized Variables.
13. Computation at Compile-Time.
14. Anaphoric Macros.
15. Macros Returning Functions.
16. Macro-Defining Macros.
17. Read Macros.
18. Destructuring.
19. A Query Compiler.
20. Continuations.
21. Multiple Processes.
22. Nondeterminism.
23. Parsing with ATNs.
24. Prolog.
25. Object-Oriented Lisp.
Appendix: Packages.
Notes.
Index.