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Code from David S. Touretzky's book
lang/lisp/bookcode/dst/
This directory contains source code from
David S. Touretzky
"Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation"
Benjamin/Cummings Publishers, Redwood City, CA, 1990. 592 pages.
ISBN 0-8053-0492-4.
Touretzky's book is perhaps the best tutorial introduction to the
language. It has clear and correct explanations, and covers some
fairly advanced topics. The book is an updated Common Lisp version of
the 1984 edition published by Harper and Row Publishers.
Three free Lisp educational tools which were used in the book --
Evaltrace, DTRACE and SDRAW -- are available in the lisp/ and
evaltrace/ subdirectories. Evaltrace is agraphical notation for
explaining how evaluation works and is described in "Visualizing
Evaluation in Applicative Languages" by David S. Touretzky and Peter
Lee, CACM 45-59, October 1992. DTRACE is a "detailed trace" which
provides more information than the tracing tools provided with most
Common Lisp implementations. SDRAW is a read-eval-draw loop that
evaluates Lisp expressions and draws the result as a cons cell diagram
(for both X11 and ascii terminals). Also available is PPMX, a tool for
pretty printing macro expansions.
Origin:
b.gp.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/dst/public/{lisp,evaltrace}
CD-ROM: Prime Time Freeware for AI, Issue 1-1
Author(s): David S. Touretzky -- lisp/ subdirectory
DST and Peter Lee -- evaltrace/ subdirectory
Contact: David S. Touretzky
Keywords:
Authors!Lee, Authors!Touretzky, Books!Lisp, Cons Cells,
Lisp!Code, Trace, Visualization
References: ?
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