9 Jan
2012
9 Jan
'12
7:46 p.m.
From: Richard
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 1:02 PM
In article <CB2BBE85.ABCB%iank at vulcan.com>,
Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> writes:
> On 1/5/12 11:54 AM, "Al Kossow" <aek
at bitsavers.org> wrote:
>> On 1/5/12 10:50 AM, Richard wrote:
>>> In article<CB2B0E3E.AAFB%iank at vulcan.com>,
>>> Ian King<IanK at vulcan.com> writes:
>>>> My first Lisp text that made sense to
me was one published by DEC,
>>>> aimed at experienced programmers. [...]
>>> This sounds interesting. What was the
book?
>> Steele "Common Lisp: The Language"
1984
>> 2nd edition published in 1990
> This one is "A Programmer's Guide to
Common Lisp" by Deborah G. Tatar,
> 1987, Digital Press (and copyright by DEC).
I'm assuming it differs from Steele in that
it's not as thick :-).
How else does it differ?
In intent and content???
Steele is a codification of Common Lisp, as defined by the Quinquivirate.
Tatar is a textbook for teaching to professional programmers the variant
of the Lisp language created by the Gang of Five and laid out by Steele
in his book.
(If you don't think this is the purpose of Steele, look at the second
edition, which reverses some decisions based on later experience with
the language as described in the first. This is encoded into the use of
"CLtLv1" and CLtLv2" as descriptives for versions of Common Lisp prior
to ANSI X3J13.)
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
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Seattle, WA 98104
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