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GOOD: This book is in good condition, showing typical signs of use and wear to the covers and top page edges. The pages are free of writing.
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Continued from the back cover: “Key features include:
- An update-to-date reference manual for ANSI Common Lisp.
- An in-depth look at object-oriented programming. Explains the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), and also how to write your own object-oriented language.
- Over 20 substantial examples, including programs for ray-tracing, text generation, pattern-matching, logical inference, generating HTML, sorting and searching, file I/O, compression, and date arithmetic.
- Special attention to critical concepts, including prefix syntax, code vs. data, recursion, functional programming, types, implicit pointers, dynamic allocation, closures, macros, class precedence, and generic functions vs. message-passing.
- A complete guide to optimization.
- The clearest and most thorough explanation of macros in any introductory book.
- Examples that illustrate Lisp programming styles, including rapid prototyping, bottom-up programming, object-oriented programming, and embedded languages.
- An appendix on debugging, with examples of common errors.”
Reviewers Richard Fateman, University of California at Berkeley, and John Foderaro, Franz Inc., have called this book a “useful alternative to Steele” and “ideal for a classroom text.” Reviewer David Touretzky, Carnegie-Mellon University, wrote, “The final chapter is brilliant. It simultaneously explains some of the key ideas behind object-oriented programming and takes the reader through several versions of an object-oriented system, each ore sophisticated than the previous.”
BRIEF CONTENTS
Chapters
- Introduction
- Welcome to Lisp
- Lists
- Specialized Data Structures
- Control
- Functions
- Input and Output
- Symbols
- Numbers
- Macros
- CLOS
- Structure
- Speed
- Advanced Topics
- Example: Inference
- Example: Generating HTML
- Example: Objects
Appendices
- Debugging
- Lisp to Lisp
- Changes to Common Lisp
- Language Reference
The book concludes with Notes and Index.