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

You might not care about Lisp but this is an excellent example of literate programming. What features from R5RS would have to be removed if one wanted a referentially transparent scheme? 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. I refer you to the excellent book "Lisp in Small Pieces". Especially if "advanced" means "higher" position – Heartless Angel Jan 22 '09 at 5:16 +1 for the first set, these are great books to add to the collection. Otherwise I would be hard pressed to choose something like The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, The wizard book, or maybe Lisp In Small Pieces. I remember reading in Lisp In Small Pieces that CDR is statistically more often encountered that CAR So my final answer is "less CARs than CDRs in the source code of PLT". September 6, 2007 at 3:23 PM · Robby said. McCarthy He does a great job in Lisp in Small Pieces, but it's building on the foundation that McCarthy layed down. I'm actually not that fond of TAOCP. While I have started reading Lisp in Small Pieces, it hasn't had quite the impact on me. Caveat: this is not a best-of nor a comprehensive list of Lisp books; it is merely a selection of Lisp books you may not have heard of or that special to me in some way. In Lisp In Small Pieces, Christian states that assignment, side-effects, and continuations break referential transparency.