A Review of ``Let Over Lambda'' by Doug Hoyte

Under review is (ISBN 978-1-4357-1275-1).  Information concerning it may be found here:
http://letoverlambda.com

This is a Lisp book I've read once and not again touched until reviewing it.  I was surprised to see
that a number of free-floating thoughts I occasionally entertain had first been read from its pages.
This is a book detailing advanced Lisp programming, primarily involving macros and other techniques.
The second chapter details closures, including the titular let over lambda; those remaining chapters
are concerned primarily with macro tricks, but also efficiency of code, and a Forth written in Lisp.

The back cover of the book includes artwork from ``Thinking Forth'', and I believe this book carries
the same general spirit of that with it; my primary criticisms of the book would be the attention it
gives to the C language in its examples and other such things, and also the odd style of Common Lisp
it sometimes uses, in that it does things such as using specially-named symbols, along with what I'd
consider odd variable names, but this is a matter of personal preference, and the code isn't opaque.

The book is nicely typeset, in general, and it's easy to recognize it from others.  I appreciate the
attention it gives to concerns which are typically ignored by other Lisp books, such as machine code
listings.  His attempt to describe Flub, in a similar vein to Paul Graham's Blub, fell flat, as this
I'd entirely forgotten of until reviewing to review.  It's not a difficult reading by any imagining;
I finished it within two months; I'm certain, were I to continue poring through its pages again, I'd
recognize more influences I've since carried, beyond recognition, and so I recommend this nice book.
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