From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 19 14:02:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692EE16A41A for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:02:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rottled@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D1AF13C46C for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:02:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rottled@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so171118nfb for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:02:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=+wavZzjbAIiFVng3Bs38NbrSDBoztjhmaZ3Y3F6rjxQ=; b=D5V83zNgvPesu+Aejndc5nXGDzJOHs9CrsiK+3gAxqvWC0opo2Bcp5aDTkNx9n7fZhUP3o4Nu8TMoTgbm7CCWH34TR7Ji3o5SeflKarutkGXLPnAZjrskoU3tgvj0gxGjEV8k64KRPccau+TTmLSLa54DzQq1vU9rg2K1lUytIA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=CBYFylcSTo9sm0u8pAP68sZ4gq8NRQLjq4IrOP7AXd2OSg7UF7QIzPOsg2/KvdQeYHnC8ASKDLEilVrzav/1b6EE8KuH5PcukheUcJI4dP+PjRVAzUAE0C4uM1wnvijpt8jTNqi0mtFGLYpM4FQvarSqIKERTrQtW+l32feyo7I= Received: by 10.86.73.17 with SMTP id v17mr535505fga.1190208948363; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.35.17 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54b90fdf0709190635k76086972pfcd141f3c0ef8244@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:35:48 -0400 From: Yan To: reed@reedmedia.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: comment about LISP book? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:02:49 -0000 It's funny that you just mentioned it now, as I was looking at a few lisp books recently. "Paradigms of AI Programming" has been hailed as one of the best lisp books ever written (book site here: http://norvig.com/paip.html, and click on the 'Comments' section). The amazon reviews for it are also glowing, not to mention the utmost respect I have for its author (Peter Norvig). Being more specific to what you're asking, quoting Norvig himself: "Probably the best book ever on how to write Lisp compilers and interpreters is Christian Queinnec's *Lisp in Small Pieces*.". You can also look at Paul Graham's "On On 9/19/07, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > Anyone here a LISP user who can spend a moment to comment about a LISP > book? > > I want to find out if it is worth pursuing publishing a course book that > introduces LISP and design of a LISP interpreter. > > If I do pursue it, I will need someone to do a technical review of the > book. This will be paid. > > Please email me off-list. Thanks. > > Jeremy C. Reed > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >