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This is a comprehensive account of the semantics and the implementation of the whole Lisp family of languages, namely Lisp, Scheme and related dialects. It describes 11 interpreters and 2 compilers, including very recent techniques of interpretation and compilation. The book is in two parts. The first starts from a simple evaluation function and enriches it with multiple name spaces, continuations and side-effects with commented variants, while at the same time the language used to define these features is reduced to a simple lambda-calculus. Denotational semantics is then naturally introduced. The second part focuses more on implementation techniques and discusses precompilation for fast interpretation: threaded code or bytecode; compilation towards C. Some extensions are also described such as dynamic evaluation, reflection, macros and objects. This will become the new standard reference for people wanting to know more about the Lisp family of languages: how they work, how they are implemented, what their variants are and why such variants exist. The full code is supplied (and also available over the Net). A large bibliography is given as well as a considerable number of exercises. Thus it may also be used by students to accompany second courses on Lisp or Scheme.

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May 05, 2021 · pjmlp on Go proposal: new package to provide generic slice functions

You can get the book
"Lisp on Small Pieces" from 1994
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521562473/acmorg-20
It is not 70's, but 26 years should be enough to get hold of such knowledge.
Or "Modern Compiler Implementation" from 1998, a little more young.
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/
Or rather "The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages", from 1986, now getting closer to 70's.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-imp...
I can still have a look into my SIGPLAN paper collection to dust off some ML papers.

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Jun 26, 2011 · sb on The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages

larsberg has already given several suggestions, however, since nobody else mentioned it yet, you might want to complete your view of functional programming language implementation by taking a look at "Lisp in Small Pieces" by Christian Queinnec (http://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/d...).

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May 06, 2011 · pdelgallego on What Would be a Good Lisp Project?

The best lisp project is a lisp interpreter/compiler in Lisp.
Take a look to Lisp in Small Pieces[1] if you are interested in something beyond the metacircular evaluator from SICP.
Read the code of Racket, you will learn a lot from it.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/d...

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Oct 01, 2010 · sb on (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))

For those interested in a more in-depth treatment of Lisp interpreters: "Lisp in Small Pieces", by Christian Queinnec is one of the canonical references in that area. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521562473)
At university we had a copy on implementation of functional programming languages following "The Architecture of Symbolic Computers" by Peter Kogge, which is very good, too. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070355967)

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