LISP in small pieces Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Scheme is probably easier to implement than CL, because it is much, much smaller. But I definitely wouldn't say that its standard has been written with optimization in mind. €It is widely held among members of the MIT Lisp community that FEXPR, NLAMBDA, and related concepts could be omitted from the Lisp language with no loss of generality and little loss of expressive power, and that doing so would make a general improvement in the quality and reliability of program-manipulating programs.” . Knott.pdf LISP in small pieces - Queinnec C.djvu 8.1. Now, the programming concepts book that I really want would be the successor to Lisp in Small Pieces (ISBN 0-521-56247-3), but AFAICT, it hasn't been finished. One of the best approach to language implementation I ever came across! Got started on a major preoccupation - a deep study of Lisp In Small Pieces. Queineec, C., Lisp in small pieces, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1996. This entry was posted in Book by tkg. Lisp in Small Pieces builds entire compilers ;; based upon this idea. Homoiconicity is what makes lisp so appealing to me, ;; far more than most other languages. Scheme An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation.pdf. Click here to download: scheme1.ss (5 KB).