terrell@laidbak.UUCP (Eric R. Terrell) (09/30/87)
Someone has recommended Henderson's book on functional programming as a good book about LISP implementation. Could that person provide some additional info: Book's Title, Publisher, etc Thanks, Eric Terrell
jwb@cive.ri.cmu.edu (John Baugh) (10/01/87)
In article <1172@laidbak.UUCP> terrell@laidbak.UUCP (Eric R. Terrell) writes: > >Someone has recommended Henderson's book on functional programming as a >good book about LISP implementation. Could that person provide some >additional info: > >Book's Title, Publisher, etc For all who may be interested: Funtional Programming: Application and Implementation by Peter Henderson Prentice-Hall International, 1980 John Baugh (jwb@cive.ri.cmu.edu)
freeman@spar.UUCP (10/02/87)
In article <1172@laidbak.UUCP> terrell@laidbak.UUCP (Eric R. Terrell) writes: >Someone has recommended Henderson's book on functional programming as a >good book about LISP implementation. Could that person provide some >additional info: > >Book's Title, Publisher, etc P. Henderson, _Functional_Programming:_Application_and_Implementation (Prentice-Hall, 1980) This is one of the "Prentice-Hall International Series on Computer Science," for which the series editor is C. A. R. Hoare. They are hardbound with red and white covers. Persons who know a little about Lisp may find the first two or three chapters of this book elementary, and may therefore be tempted to put it down. My advice is to keep reading. -- Jay Freeman
pandha@forty2.dec.com (10/12/87)
>>In article <1172@laidbak.UUCP> terrell@laidbak.UUCP (Eric R. Terrell) writes: >> >>Someone has recommended Henderson's book on functional programming as a >>good book about LISP implementation. Could that person provide some >>additional info: >> >>Book's Title, Publisher, etc >For all who may be interested: > > Funtional Programming: Application and Implementation > by Peter Henderson > Prentice-Hall International, 1980 >John Baugh (jwb@cive.ri.cmu.edu) People interested in Peter Hendersons' Functional Programming book may also be interested in "The Lispkit Manual" volumes 1 & 2 by Henderson, Jones and Jones written for the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. Volume 1 is a brief introduction to the language and existing implementations, Volume 2 contains a copy of some Liskit programs and the actual virtual machine coded in a portable manner in Pascal. To quote volume 2: "The Lispkit system is distributed, free of charge, by the authors: for copies of the documentation, copies of the Lispkit system, or for any other information about about Lispkit, contact: Peter Henderson, Department of Computing Science, UNiversity of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA" Does anyone have an implementation running that could be made available over the net?, I'd like to try it out on a VAX running VMS. Regards Permjeet Pandha