Re: Announcing Functional Fall: A 6-session functional programming reading circle in the Fall

[Aaron Feng <aaron.feng@gmail.com>]

> (New mailing list participant here):
> The Steele/Sussman Lambda The Ultimate papers are excellent reading. They go
> into some depth on how anonymous closures and function calls can be used to
> represent 'traditional' control flow structures. (IIRC, "Lambda The Ultimate
> Declarative' walks through a number of examples, control flow structure by
> control flow structure.)

For sure, we need to sort through those papers.

> http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html
> (The readscheme site in general is just full of interesting papers on
> programming language topics.)
> Also, this is a book, so it's out of the scope of papers, but Christian
> Queinnec's 'Lisp in Smalll Pieces' is a good read too. It covers a wide
> range of language design issues, and has a heavy implementation bias too.

Lisp can't be out of scope :)
Very few tech books increase value over time.  This is one of them.

Aaron