I feel somewhat pressed to give a negative review of this book. This comes from someone who has worked on various Lisp implementations, and written some amount of C, but that isn’t an excuse to be overly harsh. This book, however, does not provide many nice things to say, and plenty of un-nice things. My apologies in advance.
First off: God help you if you are going to write your first interpreter in C of all things. No one I know thinks it’s a good idea to start
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| ;;;; http://directed-procrastination.blogspot.se/2011/05/backtracking-with-common-lisp-condition.html | |
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| ;;;; Demonstrating why one should not use conditions for this kind of stuff, | |
| ;;;; instead using the dynamic binding and unwinding facilities on which the | |
| ;;;; condition system is built. The author's backtracking system doesn't compare | |
| ;;;; badly to Screamer because his is simple: it compares badly because using | |
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