Год выпуска: 1997
Язык: Английский Формат: PDF Количество страниц: 408
Описание: This book is for people who are interested in how Scheme works, or people who are interested in Scheme in terms of programming language design--as well as people who are just interested in using Scheme. There's not much conflict between these goals, since one of the best ways to learn Scheme--and important principles of language design--is to see how to implement Scheme, in Scheme. I'll illustrate the power of Scheme by showing a couple of simple interpreters for subsets of Scheme, and a simple compiler. A compiler for Scheme can be surprisingly simple and understandable. This is a fairly traditional approach, pioneered by Abelson and Sussman in Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, which is a widely used and excellent introductory programming text. This approach has been followed, more or less, in several other introductory books on Scheme programming. Most of those books, though, are for beginning programmers. While I think Scheme is a great first language, there are many people out there who've had to suffer through C or Pascal or whatever, and don't want to wade through an introductory programming book just to learn Scheme.
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