Nils M Holm

"LISP System Implementation"

Język angielski, miękka okładka, 480 stron.

Książka w stanie bardzo dobrym, brak jakichkolwiek śladów użytkowania. Skany i zdjęcia przedstawiają sprzedawany egzemplarz.

This book delves straight into the internals of an interactive LISP system. The complete source code is presented and discussed in great detail. Emphasis is on compilation to abstract machne code, but lots of topics will be discussed at length, including:

• LISP data objects

• Syntax analysis

• Closure conversion

• Lambda lifting

• Operational semantics

• Bytecode generation

• Bytecode interpretation

• Primitive functions

• Bootstrapping LISP

• Macro expansion

• Lexical and dynamic binding

• Tail call elimination

• Garbage collection

• Non-local exits

• The read-eval-print loop

• Reading and printing

• Input and output ports

• Error handling

• Heap image files

• etc ...

The C and LISP code in this book is comprehensible rather than clever. Lots of design decisions, background information, and historical tidbits are provided.

In the final part of the book, compilation of LISP-N, compilation to stand-alone binaries, and compilation to native machine code are outlined.