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LISP in small pieces Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Currently Lisp in Small Pieces is number 3. For some reason, amazon.ca has Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec for CDN$3.95. Http://hop.inria.fr/ multi-tier programming language for the Web 2.0 and the so-called diffuse Web; Lisp in Small Piecesの著者でもある. I find The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer to be very good complements to SICP and I recommend them wholeheartedly for everyone. It was written by someone who knows his stuff and knows how to teach it. Get Queinnec's "Lisp in Small Pieces". I refer you to the excellent book "Lisp in Small Pieces". I am actually selling these items so I can pay Dreamhost for another year of hosting, so it's for a good cause. So one would expect that the probability of buying the "Blue Book" given a purchase of the "Lisp in Small Pieces" would be much higher than the probability of purchasing Harry Potter. While I have started reading Lisp in Small Pieces, it hasn't had quite the impact on me. The book is just under 500 pages of bootstrap. A guy I know ordered it and he reports it's a full, normal copy. For awhile last week the book Lisp in Small Pieces was the best selling book on the Canada Amazon.com website, out selling Harry Potter. My faithful readers, will get to see them first. McCarthy He does a great job in Lisp in Small Pieces, but it's building on the foundation that McCarthy layed down. I bought Lisp In Small Pieces, read 19 pages, then struck out on my own, writing a headcase macro to factor out the repetition from the SICP code, and an interpreter. Easy to compile (most implementations of Lisp are written almost or entirely in Lisp, and the “reference” implementations usually include a compiler – see Sussmann's Scheme book or 'LiSP in Small Pieces' for examples). You might not care about Lisp but this is an excellent example of literate programming.