Lisp Lore: A Guide to Programming the Lisp Machine

by H. Bromley

Overview

This book had its genesis in the following piece of computer mail: From allegra!joan-b Tue Dec 18 09:15:54 1984 To: sola!hjb Subject: lispm Hank, I've been talking with Mark Plotnik and Bill Gale about asking you to conduct a basic course on using the lisp machine. Mark, for instance, would really like to cover basics like the flavor system, etc., so he could start doing his own programming without a lot of trial and error, and Bill and I would be interested in this, too. I'm quite sure that Mark Jones, Bruce, Eric and Van would also be really interested. Would you like to do it? Bill has let me know that if you'd care to set something up, he's free to meet with us anytime this week or next (although I'll only be here on Wed. next week) so we can come up with a plan. What do you think? Joan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475756708
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	01/16/2013
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
Pages:	245
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1 Getting Started on the Lisp Machine.- 2 What’s a Flavor?.- 3 More on Navigating the Lisp Machine.- 4 Flow of Control.- 5 The Graph Example.- 6 Streams and Files.- 7 The Tree Example.- 8 Random Useful Topics: Resources & Systems.- 9 Signaling and Handling Conditions.- 10 The Moving Icons Example.- 11 More Advanced Use of the Editor.- 12 A Quick Look at “The Network”.- Appendix: Basic Zmacs Commands.