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LISP, which stands for LISt Processing, was developed in the late 1950s by John McCarthy as a language for manipulating symbols. This book presents the Common LISP programming language, which is a version of LISP, and details it range of applications, including data structures, computer systems, and compiler design. It presents a tutorial introduction; explains lists and trees, recursion, local vs. global reference, characters and strings, streams, LAMDA and LABELS, control, debugging, macros, structures, classes and objects, vectors and arrays, and efficiency and compilation..
Synopsis
LISP, which stands for LISt Processing, was developed in the late 1950s by John McCarthy as a language for manipulating symbols. This book presents the Common LISP programming language, which is a version of LISP, and details it range of applications, including data structures, computer systems, and compiler design. It presents a tutorial introduction; explains lists and trees, recursion, local vs. global reference, characters and strings, streams, LAMDA and LABELS, control, debugging, macros, structures, classes and objects, vectors and arrays, and efficiency and compilation.
