Language extensibility (was: Why is tcl broken?)
David Thornley
thornley at visi.com
Sun Jul 4 20:31:33 EDT 1999
In article <377fc323.69785805 at nntp.ix.netcom.com>,
Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 04 Jul 1999 18:50:49 GMT, thornley at visi.com (David Thornley)
>declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>
>> "Thinking Forth" is an excellent book to read. So is Stroustrup's
>> "Design and Evolution of C++". I haven't seen a similar book about
>> the Lisp way of thinking, not counting books specifically on learning
>> Lisp and doing it well. Then again, I find Common Lisp revolutionary
>> enough sometimes.
>>
> Unfortunately, it predates much of what is now considered to be
>LISP.
>
> "Anatomy of LISP", John Allen, (1978 McGraw-Hill Computer
>Science Series).
>
> While using LISP, it was started as a data structures type
>course...
>
I am unfamiliar with that. I suppose I could track it down.
As for the suggestion of SICP, all I can do is plead a temporary
memory failure. I should have thought of that unprompted.
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