Scheming: The journey through functional programming, language design, insobriety and bad jokes
Scheming: The journey through functional programming, language design, insobriety and bad jokes
About the Book
This is a story of a middle-aged programmer that started with writing some code in Lisp, then quickly escalated to writing my own Lisp, and only went downhill from there.
Table of Contents
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- Chapter 1, where the story begins
- Chapter 2, where I parse Lisp code
- Chapter 3, where I evaluate
- Chapter 4, where I finally write some code in Scheme
- Chapter 5, where I reinvent the wheel and then collect garbage
- Chapter 6, where things become objective
- Chapter 7, where I do some typing and some pairing
- Chapter 8, where I reinvent one more wheel
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