Re:Land of Lisp (2010)
by analognoise on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:49PM
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Oh that sounds exciting, what's it called?
It is called Interpreting Lisp by G. Knott.
Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/6qc61v/second_edition...
Not to be confused with other books from the 1980s about doing Lisp in C, like Lisp: A Portable Implementation by S. Hekmatpour.
I nearly started working through that, would you mind sharing why you think it is a bad book? thx
I’m pretty sure it’s because the lisp that book makes isn’t an exact lisp; There are many features lacking and some fundamental concepts are wrongly implemented; However for developing C skills, it’s pretty good. Wouldn’t recommend learning Lisp with that though.
oh you're correct it is meant to develop C skills not learn Lisp
The 900-something lines of C code documented by the book Interpreting Lisp, which can now be found on Github, is not something I would recommend for teaching C beginners.
From a best practices point of view, it is pretty awful.
Yes, there exists a certain a really awful book from the 1980's about making your own Lisp in C, which has recently been reprinted in essentially its original form.