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

I remember reading in Lisp In Small Pieces that CDR is statistically more often encountered that CAR So my final answer is "less CARs than CDRs in the source code of PLT". And back to the subject at hand, while it's not available for free on the web, if you love these kinds of CS books, Lisp In Small Pieces needs a place on your CS bookshelf. Homoiconicity is what makes lisp so appealing to me, ;; far more than most other languages. See “Lisp in Small Pieces” or “Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography” for real literate programs as books. But one, day I found a nice small piece of lisp which allow me simplify the process. While I have started reading Lisp in Small Pieces, it hasn't had quite the impact on me. I find The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer to be very good complements to SICP and I recommend them wholeheartedly for everyone. Kamin, “Programming Languages, An Interpreter-Based Approach”, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1990. €One of my New Year's goals is to re-read Lisp in Small Pieces and implement all 11 interpreters and 2 compilers. September 6, 2007 at 3:23 PM · Robby said. Christian Queinnec, Lisp in Small Pieces. €The Anatomy of Lisp” by John Allen. Lisp in Small Pieces builds entire compilers ;; based upon this idea. Posted by aspo at 10:17 PM on April 1, 2009. 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. McCarthy He does a great job in Lisp in Small Pieces, but it's building on the foundation that McCarthy layed down. I have developed what I call the “Hawaii” test for a good literate program. Lisp in Small Pieces Computer Science Programming Languages Lisp Christian Queinnec Cambridge University Press New Ed edition.