Lisp Lore: A Guide to Programming the Lisp Machine

✍ Scribed by Hank Bromley (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book had its genesis in the following piece of computer mail: From allegra!joan-b Tue Dec 18 09:15:54 1984 To: sola!hjb Subject: lispm Hank, I've been talking with Mark Plotnik and Bill Gale about asking you to conduct a basic course on using the lisp machine. Mark, for instance, would really like to cover basics like the flavor system, etc., so he could start doing his own programming without a lot of trial and error, and Bill and I would be interested in this, too. I'm quite sure that Mark Jones, Bruce, Eric and Van would also be really interested. Would you like to do it? Bill has let me know that if you'd care to set something up, he's free to meet with us anytime this week or next (although I'll only be here on Wed. next week) so we can come up with a plan. What do you think? Joan.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Getting Started on the Lisp Machine....Pages 5-15
What’s a Flavor?....Pages 17-41
More on Navigating the Lisp Machine....Pages 43-60
Flow of Control....Pages 61-82
The Graph Example....Pages 83-117
Streams and Files....Pages 119-138
The Tree Example....Pages 139-160
Random Useful Topics: Resources & Systems....Pages 161-172
Signaling and Handling Conditions....Pages 173-181
The Moving Icons Example....Pages 183-198
More Advanced Use of the Editor....Pages 199-209
A Quick Look at “The Network”....Pages 211-219
Back Matter....Pages 221-244

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation