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Do you rank them in this order? I have "Compiling with continuations" and consider it my favorite 'compilers' book by far.



To be completely honest, I'm reading Queinnec's book at the moment, and don't know the others first hand. They're just on my reading list.

Lisp in small pieces is a fantastic book for Lisp implementers. It starts off with a simple eval and then increases in scope and complexity. It's very complete. You can see the contents in PDF here: http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/45662/toc/9780521545662...

Allen's book is considered a definite classic, though, and has a sizeable (and perhaps, aging?) fan base.


NB. While Lisp in Small Pieces is very, very good, it's not actually complete as it doesn't cover garbage collection at all, which is a bit of a shame.




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