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Computer Science
- Scheme 9 from Empty Space
[2nd Edition; no free version!]
(PDF)
- A guided tour through every single line of a real-world interpreter for
the Scheme
programming language with lots of annotations and diagrams. It includes
even gory details such as macro expansion,
call/cc, and
tail-call elimination.
Code: S9fES Interpreter.
- Sketchy Scheme, 4.5th Edition
(PDF)
- A beginner-friendly introduction to functional programming in Scheme.
- Lightweight Compiler Techniques
(PDF)
- A discussion of techniques for implementing simple yet efficient
compilers for procedural languages. Covers all phases of compilation:
scanning, parsing, optimization, code synthesis. Little theory, lots
of code.
Code: T3X Compiler (final version),
T3X Compiler (book version).
- Logic Programming in Scheme
(PDF)
- An introduction to the principles of logic programming in MicroKANREN.
Includes an application of logic programming to the well-known Zebra puzzle
and the implementation of MicroKANREN in Scheme.
Code: Another MicroKANREN.
- Zen-Style Programming
(PDF)
- An introduction to various aspects of computer science at break-neck
speed: functional programming, arbitrary-precision arithmetics,
meta-circular evaluation, searching and sorting, the limits of
computability, streams and generators, formal grammars, syntax
analysis, regular expressions, logic programming, design and
implementation of programming languages, and much more...
Code: Zen Lisp.
- Die Anatomie einer Programmiersprache
(PDF)
- [de] An early precursor to Lightweight
Compiler Techniques in german.
Code: BSL Compiler Kit.
I barely make any money at all with these books, so when you buy one,
this means a lot to me. That being said, there are free PDF copies of some
of the above books at
www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~nmh/t3x.org/zzz/.
Fiction
- Raumfische
- [de] A science fiction novella depicting the
journey of a meditating janitor on board of an exploration spacecraft.
Slightly critical, calm, serene, easy to read. Suitable for young
readers.
- Star Tramp
- [de] Quite a trashy science fiction
novella that I have written in the 1980's. It is quite technical,
action-loaded, bizarre, and rather violent (not in a gory way, though).
Spirituality
- Lernen, was wir nicht verstehen können
- [de] This book presents some key concepts of
Buddhism in general and then outlines the practice of Zen in greater
detail. Contains instructions for zazen (zen meditation).
Computer Stuff
- Scheme 9 from Empty Space (S9fES)
- A public domain interpreter for R4RS
Scheme (mirrors: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5).
It is described in great detail in the second edition of the
Scheme 9 book.
- USELESS
- An interpreter, compiler, and editor for a super-terse dialect of
FORTH. Brevity = expressiveness? You decide.
- MINBASIC
- An interpreter and compiler for an obscure BASIC dialect that I
have created back in the early 1990's. Includes some simple games
as example programs. The compiler is written in MINBASIC.
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