By Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

Drawings via Duane Bibby
foreword and afterword via man L. Steele Jr.

"I realized extra approximately LISP from this booklet than i've got from any of the opposite LISP books I've learn through the years. . . . whereas different books will inform you the mechanics of LISP, they could go away you principally uninformed at the sort of problem-solving for which LISP is optimized. The Little LISPer teaches you the way to imagine within the LISP language. . . a cheap, relaxing introduction." -- Gregg Williams, Byte
The thought that "thinking approximately computing is among the most enjoyable issues the human brain can do" units either The Little Schemer (formerly referred to as The Little LISPer) and its new spouse quantity, The pro Schemer, except different books on LISP. The authors' enthusiasm for his or her topic is compelling as they current summary innovations in a funny and easy-to-grasp type. jointly, those books will open new doorways of concept to someone who desires to discover what computing is actually approximately. The Little Schemer introduces computing as an extension of mathematics and algebra -- issues that everybody reports in grade tuition and highschool. It introduces courses as recursive features and in short discusses the boundaries of what pcs can do. The authors use the programming language Scheme, and fascinating meals to demonstrate those summary rules. The professional Schemer informs the reader approximately extra dimensions of computing: services as values, switch of kingdom, and unheard of situations. The Little LISPer has been a well-liked advent to LISP for a few years. It had seemed in French and jap. The Little Schemer and The pro Schemer are worthwhile successors and should end up both well known as textbooks for Scheme classes in addition to spouse texts for any whole introductory direction in machine Science.
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