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Re:The Other Lambda The Ultimate - Using the Y Combinator on Functions on Thursday September 16, 2010 @07:30AM (#1697482)

This is about one step away from implementing the eval function itself. Paul Graham did that in his "Roots of LISP" article.

Re:Pg's "roots of lisp" Lisp eval function - adding defmacro on Saturday September 11, 2010 @09:19PM (#1682801)

Wow - this is really about the fundamentals of LISP. I don't think pg had touched on this level before.

100 Days of the Little Lisper

Posted by averagejoe on Saturday July 17, 2010 @09:12AM
from the thelittlelisper.blogspot.com dept.

http://thelittlelisper.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-is-100-days-of-little-lisper.html

I remember reading that great book 'The Little LISPer' by Daniel Friedman. I really enjoyed it.With the rise of lambda expressions in C# and soon in Java7, and other developments like the Clojure language - it seems that these ideas are back on the radar, even in the Enterprise space.This guy is working through the 3rd Edition of book in solving the problems in Common LISP. He's even got...

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