You don't have to dick with sub-par literature. Prof Krishnamurthi's 1st-rate book is already available for free. It's Essentials of Programming Languages-like

You don't have to dick with sub-par literature. Prof Krishnamurthi's 1st-rate book is already available for free. It's Essentials of Programming Languages-like but much more approachable. http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/ http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/ Stuff like John Cranshaw's tutorial is outdated. If you know a modicum of Lisp you can start hacking languages in no time.