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LISP in small pieces Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Queineec, C., Lisp in small pieces, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1996. So one would expect that the probability of buying the "Blue Book" given a purchase of the "Lisp in Small Pieces" would be much higher than the probability of purchasing Harry Potter. I am actually selling these items so I can pay Dreamhost for another year of hosting, so it's for a good cause. I refer you to the excellent book "Lisp in Small Pieces". I bought Lisp In Small Pieces, read 19 pages, then struck out on my own, writing a headcase macro to factor out the repetition from the SICP code, and an interpreter. Literate, Racket-Styled Interpreter from Ch. Quote first: (define quote-expression? My faithful readers, will get to see them first. Lisp In Small Pieces supports only quote , if , begin , set! I'm actually not that fond of TAOCP. Otherwise I would be hard pressed to choose something like The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, The wizard book, or maybe Lisp In Small Pieces. It was written by someone who knows his stuff and knows how to teach it. €�It is widely held among members of the MIT Lisp community that FEXPR, NLAMBDA, and related concepts could be omitted from the Lisp language with no loss of generality and little loss of expressive power, and that doing so would make a general improvement in the quality and reliability of program-manipulating programs.” . Get Queinnec's "Lisp in Small Pieces". You might not care about Lisp but this is an excellent example of literate programming. The book is just under 500 pages of bootstrap.