LISP Lore: A Guide to Programming the LISP Machine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction

   • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

   Pages 1-5

3. Getting Started on the Lisp Machine

   • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

   Pages 7-36

4. Flow of Control

   • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

   Pages 37-65

5. More on Navigating the Lisp Machine

   • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

   Pages 67-96

6. What’s a Flavor?

   • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

   Pages 97-129

7. User Interface

   • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

   Pages 131-148

8. The Graph Example

   • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

   Pages 149-172

9. Streams and Files

   • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

   Pages 173-204

10. The Calculator Example

    • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

    Pages 205-215

11. Systems, Storage and Errors

    • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

    Pages 217-243

12. The Card Game Example

    • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

    Pages 245-278

13. More Advanced Use of the Editor

    • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

    Pages 279-297

14. A Quick Look At the Network

    • Hank Bromley, Richard Lamson

    Pages 299-324

15. Back Matter

    Pages 325-337

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This book had its genesis in the following piece of computer mail: From allegra!joan-b Tue Dec 18 89:15:54 1984 To: sola!hjb Subj ect: 1 i spm Hank, I've been talking with Mark Plotnik and Bill Gale about asking you to conduct a basic course on using the lisp machine. Mark, for instance, would really like to cover basics like the flavor system, etc. , so he could start doing his own programming without a lot of trial and error, and Bill and I would be interested in this, too. I'm quite sure that Mark Jones, Bruce, Eric and Van would also be really interested. Would you like to do it? Bill has let me know that if you'd care to set something up, he's free to meet with us anytime this week or next (although I'll only be here on Wed. next week) so we can come up with a plan. What do you think? Joan. xiv Lisp Lore (All the people and computers mentioned above work at AT&T Bell Laboratories, in Murray Hill, New Jersey. ) I agreed, with some trepidation, to try teaching such a course. It wasn't clear how I was going to explain the Lisp Machine environment to a few dozen beginners when at the time I felt I was scarcely able to keep myself afloat. Particularly since many of the "beginners" had PhD's in computer science and a decade or two of programming experience.

• Debugging
• LISP
• Windows
• compiler
• computer
• computer science
• control
• learning
• programming

• AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA

  Hank Bromley

• Symbolics, Inc., USA

  Richard Lamson

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