Re: What's so cool about Scheme?

[Scott McKay <address@hidden>]

At 9:32 PM -0700 6/5/03, Steve Dekorte wrote:
>On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 08:36 PM, Trevis Rothwell wrote:
>>  - Essentials of Programming Languages, by Dan Friedman & friends
>>... it's really more about programming languages than Scheme.
>
>I got this book based on a similar recommendation from a friend. 
>IMO, it's a book about how to implement a Scheme in Scheme. About 20 
>of the 500+ pages are about OO and basically just show how to 
>emulate them with case statements in Scheme. Btw, anyone know of any 
>good books about implementing OO languages in C?
>

I like Lisp in Small Pieces, by Christian Queinnec.  It's
my favorite book on how to boot an OO language.