This is a comprehensive account of the semantics and the implementation of the whole Lisp family of languages, namely Lisp, Scheme and related dialects.

You might even have fun. This book teaches you everything you need to know to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language.

How can you overcome JavaScript language oddities and unsafe features? With this book, you’ll learn how to create code that’s beautiful, safe, and simple to understand and test by using JavaScript’s functional programming support.

If you've ever wondered how to build your own programming language or wanted to learn C but weren't sure where to start, this is the book for you.

This volume is an excellent text for a course on AI programming, a useful supplement for general AI courses and an indispensable reference for the professional programmer.

You'll learn to: –Master the quirks of Lisp’s syntax and semantics –Write concise and elegant functional programs –Use macros, create domain-specific languages, and learn other advanced Lisp techniques –Create your own web server, ...

* Treats LISP as a language for commercial applications, not a language for academic AI concerns.

The book is deep, dense, full of code, and has moments when it is intentionally funny.

For several years Mark Jason Dominus has worked to apply functional programming techniques to Perl.