Re: [Axiom-developer] Literate Programming example

[daly]

I loved that book. I taught from it at Vassar.
It is well worth the price.

On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 13:52 -0600, Raymond Rogers wrote:
> It's been a long time but I believe I read
> Anatomy of Lisp
> John Allen
> 
> As I recall it would be an example of "literate programing" in the sense
> that every piece of code had extensive explanation before and after; and
> could actually lift the code and implement it.
> I found it a revelation; he actually built a lisp interpreter and a
> memory management DB system right in front of my eyes; and I understood
> it.  I had always thought that starting at that level and generating
> what he did wouldn't be possible without inventing a new language for
> the DB handling.  I thought DB handling was totally inappropriate for Lisp.
> Of course he did start from a (small) kernel.
> Sad to say it's out of print but Amazon has it available; for a
> exorbitant price IMHO.
> 
> Ray