From: Brent
Subject: Seeking book on LISP implementations
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1992 21:43:01 +0000
Message-ID: <1992Jul1.214301.2789@tamsun.tamu.edu>

Hi all.  I am looking for a book that talks about implementing a
LISP system (interpreter).  There are several books on LISP out
there, of course, but I would like to find something that details
the internals of the 'typical' lisp system.

Any pointers would be great

-Brent
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From: Omar Patino-Siliceo
Subject: Re: Seeking book on LISP implementations
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1992 14:10:30 +0000
Message-ID: <1992Jul7.141030.3061@news.vanderbilt.edu>

In article <····················@tamsun.tamu.edu> ·······@tamsun.tamu.edu  
(Brent) writes:
> 
> Hi all.  I am looking for a book that talks about implementing a
> LISP system (interpreter).  There are several books on LISP out
> there, of course, but I would like to find something that details
> the internals of the 'typical' lisp system.

If you are interested in looking at the guts of a lisp implmentation, you may
want to dig in KCL and AKCL. If this is too big of a task (figure out the
code) I recommend to look into the implementation of XLisp (available via ftp
from many sites (including wuarchive.wustl.edu)

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