ANN: Scheme 9 Book, New Edition!
Nils M Holm
I am happy to announce that the second edition of my
best-selling book,
Scheme 9 from Empty Space
A Guide to Implementing Scheme in C
is now available and can be purchased at lulu.com.
See the home page for details:
*** Everyone who orders a print or PDF copy during ***
*** October 2010 can request a free HTML copy. Just ***
*** mail me a proof of purchase. ***
The 247-page textbook contains a guided tour through
the complete S9fES Scheme interpreter source code:
about 6600 lines of C and 1300 lines of Scheme, heavily
annotated and illustrated with 31 figures. Topics covered
in the text include:
- expression evaluation
- constant-space garbage collection
- macro expansion (both high- and low-level)
- bignum integer arithmetics
- decimal-based floating point arithmetics
- lexical vs. dynamic scoping
- tail call eliminiation
- continuations
and much more...
If you want to have a look behind the scenes of a Scheme
(or LISP) interpreter, this is the right book for you.
The second edition is rewritten from the scratch. It adds
continuations, real-number arithmetics, low-level macro
expansion and -- as a bonus -- pattern matching. It has
also a much more bad-ass looking cover image.
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Nils M Holm | http://t3x.org
Benjamin L. Russell
> It has
> also a much more bad-ass looking cover image.
What is being depicted in the image on the cover?
-- Benjamin L. Russell
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Nils M Holm
> Nils M Holm <news...@t3x.org> writes:
> > It has
> > also a much more bad-ass looking cover image.
>
> What is being depicted in the image on the cover?
Some science fiction lifeform. Before I started a failing
career as a computer guy, I built scifi models. The cover
shows one of them. BTW, the image was not altered digitally
except for stretching contrast and trimming the edges.