Functional programming

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1. abecedariusAug 2022
   > Functional Programming: Application and Implementation by Peter Henderson

   seconding this recommendation from the OP. I sold my copy ~20 years ago but remember it as quite good.

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2. agumonkeyNov 2016
   What about non-bibles ?

   Henderson's FP book: https://www.amazon.com/Functional-Programming-Application-Im...

   Watson's Lisp: https://www.amazon.com/Lisp-3rd-Patrick-Winston/dp/020108319...

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3. zmowerApr 2015
   Functional Programming Application and Implementation by Peter Henderson. Old but interesting. Woken Furies by Richard Morgan. Good sci-fi detective thriller series. Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C Feathers. Hell of a book. Up there with Mythical Man Month.
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4. s3grahamNov 2009
   I have a copy of an great-but-ancient book called "Functional Programming: Application and Implementation" (Peter Henderson, edited by CAR Hoare).

   If you're interested in this implementation, you'll find that book very interesting, and quite similar I think (based on reading the link).

   (The book has a now-amusing appendix too where it lists the "object" code for the compiler in sexp-syntax, presuming that you'd have no other way to bootstrap other than typing that in :)

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5. rufiusOct 2009
   LispKit lisp is a pretty good example. A good description exists in "Functional Programming: Application and Implementation" by Peter Henderson.
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6. PenyngtonMay 2023
   I've actually recently read "FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING: Application and Implementation", by Peter Henderson from 1980, which contains a description of the SECD machine and a compiler for a simple purely-functional Lisp dialect called Lispkit.

   This <https://github.com/carld/lispkit> looks like a good repo if you want to know more, although I'm not related to it in any way.

   I can't say how it compares the book by Kogge mentioned in this post since I haven't read that, but I can say I think it's an excellent book and worth reading if you're interested in this kind of thing.

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