I loved that book. I taught from it at Vassar. It is well worth the price. On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 13:52 -0600, Raymond Rogers wrote: > It's been a long time but I believe I read > Anatomy of Lisp > John Allen > > As I recall it would be an example of "literate programing" in the sense > that every piece of code had extensive explanation before and after; and > could actually lift the code and implement it. > I found it a revelation; he actually built a lisp interpreter and a > memory management DB system right in front of my eyes; and I understood > it. I had always thought that starting at that level and generating > what he did wouldn't be possible without inventing a new language for > the DB handling. I thought DB handling was totally inappropriate for Lisp. > Of course he did start from a (small) kernel. > Sad to say it's out of print but Amazon has it available; for a > exorbitant price IMHO. > > Ray
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