<p>Unfortunately, those books, and lisp and scheme in general, work with mutators and metaprogramming, which really gets in the way of the things I want to work on. I'd prefer to work with more modern languages. </p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 27, 2009 8:53 AM, "dpc" <<a href="mailto:weasel@meer.net">weasel@meer.net</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">Crutcher Dunnavant <<a href="mailto:crutcher@gmail.com">crutcher@gmail.com</a>> writes:
> I've decided to work through Simon Peyton-Jones'
...</font></p>a book in a similar vein is quiennec's _lisp in small pieces_ (or<br>
Principes d'implantation de Scheme et Lisp, in the french) goes through<br>
some major implementation techniques (for functional langs) several<br>
different ways (eg, naive interpreter to meta-compilation for generating<br>
code).<br>
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