Common Lisp

by Guy L. Steele Jr., 井田 昌之 (翻訳), 田中 啓介 (翻訳)

The defacto standard - a must-have for all LISP programmers. In this greatly expanded edition of the defacto standard, you'll learn about the nearly 200 changes already made since original publication - and find out about gray areas likely to be revised later. Written by the Vice- Chairman of X3J13 (the ANSI committee responsible for the standardization of Common Lisp) and co-developer of the language itself, the new edition contains the entire text of the first edition plus six completely new chapters. They - CLOS, the Common Lisp Object System, with new features to support function overloading and object-oriented programming, plus complete technical specificationsLoops, a powerful control structure for multiple variablesConditions, a generalization of the error signaling mechanismSeries and generatorsPlus other subjects not part of the ANSI standards but of interest to professional programmers. Throughout, you'll find fresh examples, additional clarifications, warnings, and tips - all presented with the author's customary vigor and wit.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science, Computers, Technology, Reference, Technical

914 pages, Tankobon Hardcover

First published March 16, 1984

Reviews

[Patrick Coakley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Guy Steele has a talent for making something like a programming language spec interesting and easy to read. The information in this book is freely available online, but I collect older technical books just to keep around for the times I want to flip through them. The paperback is short and thick, but is pretty good quality, and worth looking for if you're into books of this nature.

[Moshe]

There is no such thing as the perfect programming language.

[Simon Spero · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's online; I now have a second copy, as the first one came unbound.

Also, alas poor DEC.