Lisp in Small Pieces

Lisp in Small Pieces: https://pages.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html An excellent and very fun read about compilation, interpretation, and programming semantics. I don’t think you already have to know LISP, although there isn’t an introduction, but if you know any programming it would be enough to pick up the programs that are used as examples. Source code from the book is available and you will end up programming as you move along and it is a delight to see yourself make a program that can interpret another program.

http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiS... (http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html) Might be jumping in at the deep end if he's never seen lisp before, but it was originally published in french...

Richard Bird, Philip Wadler - Introduction to Functional Programming http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Functional-Programming-In... (http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Functional-Programming-International-Computing/dp/0134841891) Richard Bird - Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design http://www.amazon.com/Pearls-Functional-Algorithm-Design-Ric... (http://www.amazon.com/Pearls-Functional-Algorithm-Design-Richard/dp/0521513383) Christian Queinnec - Lisp in Small Pieces http://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/d... (http://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/dp/0521545668)

If you're comfortable with Lisp, Lisp in Small Pieces is good.