Re: A(n orthogonal) set of essential operations for CAS

Hatto von Aquitanien wrote:
Richard J. Fateman wrote: 
You might find it useful to look at Structure and Interpretation
of Computer Programs  by Abelson/Sussman.  It's online, if you
can't find it in a library or bookstore.


You are not the only person to recommend that text.  Jamie Zawinski of
Mozilla infamy recommends it, and Roman Meader - a major contributor to the
design of Mathematica - mentions it in the bibliography of at least two of
his books.  I'm pleased to find it on-line.  Normaly I would purchase such
a book, but I'm having to limit myself these days.

My experience is that SICP is both great and useless at the same time. Beginners are often turned off by the level of abstraction and "correctness" it exudes. That said, the authors do have something rare but valuable to say. SICP is best read in moderation, interspersed between other sources.

Other online Lisp books (in no particular order):
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/
http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/cover.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html
http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index.htm

The last two aren't really books, but they're still worth mentioning.

Some other interesting reads:
http://openmap.bbn.com/~kanderso/performance/
http://www.naggum.no/worse-is-better.html

The Worse Is Better treatise gains some historical context from the following:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html

Later,
Daniel
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