Author: Laurent Siklóssy
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
LISP is a LISt processing programming language based on John McCarthy's work on nonnumeric computation published in 1960. It is the language of choice for research requiring nonnumeric computation. This text gives a reasonably complete exposition of LISP, but avoids the details of the implementations of the language. The first seven chapters give a slow-paced introduction to the more elementary features of the language, while chapters 8-11 pull together the features not found in previous chapters. Seldom is LISP taught as a first programming language, and so have assumed that the reader of this text knows the mechanics of accessing computers, running programs, and debugging them. Some programming approaches are emphasized, however.