The Little Lisper - Softcover

Freidman, Daniel P.; Felleisen, Matthias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0574219552 ISBN 13: 9780574219558

Publisher: Macmillan USA, 1986

Synopsis

There are surprises in store for the diligent reader of this masterful introduction to recursion as a fundamental tool for expressing and solving problems. With wit and wisdom, "The Little LISPer" unfolds some of the most beautiful concepts in mathematics, computer science, and logic.The authors' goal is to show that recursive thinking is first of all fun, that it is powerful, and that the programming language Lisp allows one to express ideas recursively and naturally. There are hard problems along the way, but their solution brings mastery of recursive, functional, and meta-linguistic abstractions, developing skills in the underlying creative programming in Lisp. "The Little LISPer" is self-contained: an interpreter for the language is developed using the tools of the book itself .

About this title

Review:

"Many readers will be delighted and edified by Friedman and Felleisen's novel approach to the recursive programming language Lisp."- Raymond Smullyan, author of "To Mock a Mockingbird"

About the Author:

Daniel P. Friedman is Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University and coauthor of "The Little Schemer" (fourth edition), "The Reasoned Schemer, The Seasoned Schemer", and " Essentials of Programming Languages "(third edition), all published by the MIT Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan USA
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0574219552
• ISBN 13: 9780574219558
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2