Cees de Groot

The Genius of Lisp

eBook Ausgabe. Sprachen: Englisch
EAN 9781069886415
16,04 €
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Februar 2026
Berksoft Publications

Journey through the fascinating story of Lisp: How it came about and why it was designed the way it was. Meet the geniuses involved in its creation, including Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, and the father of Lisp and artificial intelligence, John McCarthy. Lisp has informed the design of most programming languages in use today, and to learn how Lisp was constructed is to learn what programming is all about.
Explore the mathematical foundations of the language and dive deeply into its earliest implementation. Discover the characteristics of and differences between modern Lisps, how to retro-compute like it's the 1970's (and you're a student at MIT), and why Emacs was forked. Get a solid understanding of how this language
was critical to early artificial intelligence work, from ELIZA (the ChatGPT of its day) to Expert Systems for medical diagnosis. While Lisp is one of the earliest programming languages, it is still in active use today (ever used EMACS?)
Build Lisp yourself, writing its five key functions -- car, cdr, cons, equal, and atom -- and its minimalistic interpreter with a few lines of JavaScript, to see the simplicity and beauty of its construction, and in doing so, discover for yourself the genius of Lisp.
Foreword by Common Lisp creator Richard. P. Gabriel

Cees de Groot has been a software developer since 1986, and most of the time using the Emacs editor, largely written in its own dialect of Lisp. Over the years, he has written code in many languages for many operating systems, but no language was as powerful as Common Lisp, which is now his favorite "hacking" language.

What is Lisp?, Origins, Inventing Computing: Church and Turing, McCarthy Invents Lisp, The Birth of LIsp, The Maxwell Equations of Software, Implementing LISP I, The Golden Age of AI, Sussman and Steele make Scheme, The Push for a Common Lisp, Stallman extends the Editor, AI Winter, Lisp Today, A New Style of Lisp on Java, Your Language Is A Lisp, Retro Hardware, Retrocomputing, A Tour of Current Lisps

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