Lisp in Small Pieces is a book

Book

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 by Christian Queinnec on Lisp, Scheme and other related dialects, their interpretation

Interpreter (computing)

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, semantics

Semantics

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, and compilation and contains code for 11 interpreters and 2 compiler

Compiler

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s.

The English title is a recursive acronym

Recursive acronym

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 (Lisp in Small Pieces). It was originally published in French

French language

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 by Interéditions with the title Les Langages Lisp. The revised edition bears the title Principes d'implantation de Scheme et Lisp.

See also

• Essentials of Programming Languages
  Essentials of Programming Languages
  Essentials of Programming Languages is a textbook on programming languages by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, and Christopher T. Haynes.EOPL surveys the principles of programming languages from an operational perspective...
  
  
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is a textbook published in 1984 about general computer programming concepts from MIT Press written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, with Julie Sussman...