The Art of Lisp Programming

Many of us already have at least a passing acquaintance with procedural languages such as BASIC or Pascal, but may not have met a functional language like Lisp before. Using the same enjoyable and sometimes quirky style that they employed so successfully in "The Art of C-Programming", Robin Jones and his team explain the fundamentals of Lisp in a way that students from school to postgraduates will find lucid and stimulating. The book is unique in illustrating the use of Lisp through the development of a realistic project: the design and implementation of a Lisp-based interpreter for the language ABC. Front Matter....Pages I-XIV Some Basic Ideas....Pages 1-8 List Functions....Pages 9-15 Predicates....Pages 17-21 Recursion....Pages 23-32 A Look Back (and Forward)....Pages 33-40 Sets and Lists....Pages 41-47 Input....Pages 49-54 Output....Pages 55-61 Iterative Constructs....Pages 63-71 More About Program Control....Pages 73-81 File Handling....Pages 83-89 Data Structures....Pages 91-104 Arrays, Strings and Structures....Pages 105-112 A Pot-Pourri of Features....Pages 113-122 Debugging Techniques....Pages 123-127 Object-Oriented Programming....Pages 129-136 ABC....Pages 137-139 ABC Interpreter: Scanner....Pages 141-152 ABC Intepreter: Execution....Pages 153-160 Back Matter....Pages 161-169 Some basic ideas List functions Predicates Recursion A look back (and forward) Sets and lists Input Output Iterative constructs More about program control File handling Data structures Arrays, strings and structures A pot-pourri of features Debugging techniques Object-oriented programming ABC ABC interpreter: scanner ABC interpreter: execution Quick reference guide Subject Index.