Let's Talk LISP

Download or read book Let's Talk LISP written by Laurent Siklóssy and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1976 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LISP is a LISt processing programming language based on John McCarthy's work on nonnumeric computation published in 1960. It is the language of choice for research requiring nonnumeric computation. This text gives a reasonably complete exposition of LISP, but avoids the details of the implementations of the language. The first seven chapters give a slow-paced introduction to the more elementary features of the language, while chapters 8-11 pull together the features not found in previous chapters. Seldom is LISP taught as a first programming language, and so have assumed that the reader of this text knows the mechanics of accessing computers, running programs, and debugging them. Some programming approaches are emphasized, however.