The Reasoned Schemer (Paperback, second edition)

A new edition of a book, written in a humorous question-and-answer style, that shows how to implement and use an elegant little programming language for logic programming. The goal of this book is to show the beauty and elegance of relational programming, which captures the essence of logic programming. The book shows how to implement a relational programming language in Scheme, or in any other functional language, and demonstrates the remarkable flexibility of the resulting relational programs. As in the first edition, the pedagogical method is a series of questions and answers, which proceed with the characteristic humor that marked The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer. Familiarity with a functional language or with the first five chapters of The Little Schemer is assumed. For this second edition, the authors have greatly simplified the programming language used in the book, as well as the implementation of the language. In addition to revising the text extensively, and simplifying and revising the "Laws" and "Commandments," they have added explicit "Translation" rules to ease translation of Scheme functions into relations.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Reasoned Schemer
Release date:	March 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Daniel P. Friedman (Professor) • William E Byrd (Research Professor) • Oleg Kiselyov (Assistant Professor) • Jason Hemann (Ph.D. Candidate)
Illustrators:	Duane Bibby
Foreword by:	Guy Lewis Steele • Gerald Jay Sussman (Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT)
Afterword by:	Robert A. Kowalski
Dimensions:	229 x 178 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	208
Edition:	second edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-53551-9
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Programming languages > General
LSN:	0-262-53551-3
Barcode:	9780262535519

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