·······@my-deja.com writes:
> Is there any CL equivalent Stroustrup's "The Design and Evolution of
> C++" book?
>
There's a paper "The Evolution of Lisp" by Guy L. Steele Jr. and
Richard P. Gabriel. It's available from different places on the net.
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·······@my-deja.com writes:
>Is there any CL equivalent Stroustrup's "The Design and Evolution of
>C++" book?
[Other people: this is not about the history of C++, but addresses how
various "special" solutions in C++ came to be how they are.]
There are not enough technical-inherited quirks in CL to justify a
whole book :-)
Seriously, the annotations in the ANSI standard for CL do the kind of
justification that D&E gives for C++. See the Hyperspec. Also see
the CLtL2 index under "kludges".
Martin
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In article <·············@counter.bik-gmbh.de>,
········@counter.bik-gmbh.de (Martin Cracauer) wrote:
> ·······@my-deja.com writes:
>
> >Is there any CL equivalent Stroustrup's "The Design and Evolution of
> >C++" book?
>
> [Other people: this is not about the history of C++, but addresses how
> various "special" solutions in C++ came to be how they are.]
If you look under the "history" pages on www.lisp.org you
will find for example http://www.lisp.org/table/Lisp-History.html
where one for example finds http://www.lisp.org/table/cl-email-history.text.gz
where various proposals in the early days have been
discussed. See for example the "The October 1982 Common LISP Ballot".
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In article <············@nnrp1.deja.com>, ·······@my-deja.com wrote:
> Is there any CL equivalent Stroustrup's "The Design and Evolution of
> C++" book?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
See:
http://www.lisp.org/table/history.htm
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