Anatomy of Lisp

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Summary: Essential Reading about Functional Programming
Review: This is a beautiful book about the essense of LISP, functional programming, and interpreters.

The author takes the reader through a journey of discovery of the concepts behind functional languages, working his way from atoms, to S-expressions, to lists, to lambda calculus and functions, and then to environments, early and lazy evaluation, and, finally, into the construction of a LISP interpreter using LISP itself.

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the fundamental concepts behind computing and programming.