I can double on that.

Around the second chapter I was so amazed by the book that instead of reading it further I translated it into Russian, got the Professor's blessings, and to this day it warms my heart every time I see a new star on the repo.

It's definitely a good introductory piece on Lisp history and its central ideas as well as on language runtimes and implementations.

Lisp in Small Pieces is by far my favorite computer book. It was so much fun to read, and I can't recommend it enough!

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