lynn@phx.mcd.mot.com (Lynn D Newton) (02/26/91)
Hello, Scheme people. I am brand spanking new to Scheme (starting today), and know precious little about any other dialect of LISP. (I have used GNU Emacs for over 3 years, and can hack a little code.) Here's my problem: I have a job assignment to get familiar and fluent with Scheme in a very big hurry. I have Scheme itself, running inside emacs, no less, and have a prototype application that Scheme will run, which I am going to be expected to continue developing. Meanwhile, I have been fed a list of books titles on the subject, none of which I can find. I would appreciate it if any kind reader who knows where I can obtain the following books immediately, and who ships FedEx, would send me a phone number of the place that sells them so I could order pronto.: "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson and Sussman, McGraw-Hill, 1985. "Scheme and the Art of Programming" by Springer and Friedman, MIT Press and McGraw Hill 1989. "The Scheme Programming Language" by Kent Dybvig, Prentice Hall 1987. Also, I understand that the following publications are available for ftp from some location, but I don't know where. I didn't see them on either prep.ai.mit.edu or altdorf.ai.mit.edu, unless I just didn't know what I was looking at. "The Revised Revised Revised Revised Scheme Reference Manual" "MIT Scheme Manual (Rev. 3)" (don't know exact title, but presume you folks out there do) "MIT Scheme Reference for Extensions" (also don't know exact title) Any help that is offered would be much appreciated. Email will get to me faster than posting a reply. -- ================================================================= Lynn D. Newton | System Test Motorola Core Engineering | (Department of Heuristic Neology) Tempe, AZ | "The bug stops here!" (602) 438-3739 | lynn@jazz.phx.mcd.mot.com |
jems@altdorf.ai.mit.EDU (Julie Sussman) (02/28/91)
I don't know why you're having trouble getting Abelson & Sussman ... but perhaps this will help you. First of all, "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" is a joint MIT Press / McGraw-Hill publication. The publishers have divided up the marketing rights, so that McGraw-Hill can sell only to U.S. colleges (and apparently through some book clubs), and MIT Press can sell only abroad and to the non-college market in the U.S. Apparently you talked to a total incompetent at McGraw-Hill. It's true that they could not sell directly to you, since you are not a college. But they should have referred you to MIT Press or to your favorite bookstore. Any ordinary bookstore should be able to order the book for you (from MIT Press, not McGraw-Hill). Or you can order it directly from MIT Press yourself. Or maybe MIT Press can help you find a copy in a store near you. Let me know if you need more help with this. Julie Sussman (jems@zurich.ai.mit.edu)