Sketchy LISP

An Introduction to Functional Programming in Scheme

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In case you arrived here after reading the complete book: Congratulations. You should now be able to read some more serious texts about Scheme. Some titles that may be of interest to you are cited below.

The R⁵RS is the climax of Scheme standards (so far) and a great improvement over its immediate successor.

R. Kelsey, W. Clinger, J. Rees (eds.)
Revised⁵ Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation,
Vol. 11, No. 1, August, 1998
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 33, No. 9, September, 1998
Full text: http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/

The following titles occur in order of increasing complexity:

Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen
The Little Schemer
MIT Press, 1995 (4th Edition)
ISBN 978-0-262-56099-3
Info: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/

Hal Abelson, Jerry Sussman, Julie Sussman
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
MIT Press, 1996 (2nd Edition)
ISBN 978-0-262-51087-5
Full text: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

Christian Queinnec
Lisp In Small Pieces
Cambridge University Press, 1994
ISBN 978-0-521-54566-2
Info: http://www-spi.lip6.fr/~queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html