Liam Clarke said unto the world upon 2005-01-20 21:46:
Oops,
and OT ~ Has anyone used Lisp? I've been reading Paul Graham's
essays on how great Lisp is, and how Python is near to implementing
features Lisp had in the 60's. Also found the concept of macros
interesting.
<SNIP>
Regards,
Liam Clarke
Hi Liam,
I've barely poked into Lisp or the book, but the Jargon File
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/W/Wizard-Book.html> has this
to say:
"Wizard Book: n
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Hal Abelson,
Jerry Sussman and Julie Sussman; MIT Press, 1984, 1996; ISBN
0-262-01153-0), an excellent computer science text used in
introductory courses at MIT. So called because of the wizard on the
jacket. One of the bibles of the LISP/Scheme world. Also, less
commonly, known as the Purple Book. Now available on the
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/";
Best,
Brian vdB
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