--------------------[ LISP ]--------------------

Chapter 3 in the Mitchell textbook covers LISP. Read about its history
in 3.1--2, and the overview in 3.3; pay special attention to the abstract
machine of CONS cells described in 3.4.3 and use the exercises in it
to check yourself. Read 3.4.4.

Read http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/acl2.txt (see below).

Download Paul Graham's free book http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html
and read sections 2.1--2.3. Have your LISP shell open, and try every
command; this is the only way. We'll deal with 2.5 and later on Thursday.

Paul Graham also wrote a reference for ANSI Common LISP:
http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html
This book is, unfortunately, not free, but Chapters 1 and 2 are online, and
are very useful.

We'll deal with Mitchell's 3.4.5, 3.4.6 on Thursday; we might get to
3.4.7--9 as well, but you are welcome to read ahead, as usual.

There's another free book on LISP, http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
Give it a try; Chapters 1--6 cover a lot of ground.

--------------------[ Mentions, for the curious ]--------------------

I mentioned Paul Graham's essay on using LISP for a web store.
Here it is: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

I also mentioned this talk about ad-hoc parts in programming languages:
         https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
It doesn't mean that these languages are bad---but it shows that
they are not as surprise-free as one might like.

--------------------[ The X-hour this week ]------------------------

On Wednesday, we'll use the X-hour to go through x86 suggested
exercises in x86/exercises.txt. You don't need to attend if you feel
comfortable with x86 disassembly.