LISP, Lore, and Logic: An Algebraic View of LISP Programming, Foundations, and Applications

✍ Scribed by W. Richard Stark (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 293
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Here is a presentation of LISP which is both practical and theoretical. For the practical, the syntax of the language, the programming styles, and the semantics of computation are carefully developed. For the theoretical, the algebra of interpreters, the lambda calculus as a foundation for LISP, and the algebraic significance of LISP's approach to artificial intelligence are discussed. As the title suggests, the book reaches beyond the technical side of LISP to present colorful applications, historical comments and quotations, computational philosophy, consequences of LISP's exceptional power, and much more. The material has been designed to appeal to a variety of readers, from the bright freshman to the practicing professional, and from computer scientists and mathematicians to chemists, engineers, and philosophers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
A First Look at LISP....Pages 1-19
Elementary Programming....Pages 20-70
Deeper into Essential Structure....Pages 71-103
Computational Philosophy....Pages 104-125
LISP Functions for Powerful Programming....Pages 126-175
Interpreters: From Algebra to LISP....Pages 176-199
Mathematical Foundations for LISP....Pages 200-215
Automatic Reasoning, Algebraic Intelligence....Pages 216-239
Bibliography....Pages 240-245
Answers to Selected Exercises....Pages 246-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-278

✦ Subjects

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Programming Techniques; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Logics and Meanings of Programs