The Little Schemer, fourth edition (Mit Press)

Daniel P.Friedman MatthiasFelleisen

• The MIT Press (1995年12月21日発売)

作品紹介・あらすじ

drawings by Duane Bibbyforeword by Gerald J. SussmanThe notion that "thinking about computing is one of the most exciting things the human mind can do" sets both The Little Schemer (formerly known as The Little LISPer) and its new companion volume, The Seasoned Schemer, apart from other books on LISP. The authors' enthusiasm for their subject is compelling as they present abstract concepts in a humorous and easy-to-grasp fashion. Together, these books will open new doors of thought to anyone who wants to find out what computing is really about. The Little Schemer introduces computing as an extension of arithmetic and algebra;things that everyone studies in grade school and high school. It introduces programs as recursive functions and briefly discusses the limits of what computers can do. The authors use the programming language Scheme, and interesting foods to illustrate these abstract ideas. The Seasoned Schemer informs the reader about additional dimensions of computing: functions as values, change of state, and exceptional cases. The Little LISPer has been a popular introduction to LISP for many years. It had appeared in French and Japanese.
The Little Schemer and The SeasonedSchemer are worthy successors and will prove equally popular as textbooks for Scheme courses as well as companion texts for any complete introductory course in Computer Science.

感想・レビュー・書評

[kohyamaさんの感想 · 2012年11月14日]

This doesn't describe how to use Scheme but how to build up a language processor of scheme by using scheme.
It's an excellent way to understand both how to use scheme and how to build up a language processor.