Conference heron::euro_swas_ai

182.0. "DIGITAL PRESS OFFERING, FYI" by HERON::ROACH (TANSTAAFL !) Wed Feb 28 1990 12:45

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                  I N T E R O F F I C E   M E M O R A N D U M

                                        Date:     28-Feb-1990 03:56am CET
                                        From:     TSS
                                                  TSS@AIADM@SELECT@HERON@MRGATE@HUGHI
                                        Dept:      
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TO:  ROACH@A1NSTC


Subject: DIGITAL PRESS OFFERING, FYI

Subj:	Digital Press Announces LISP: Style and Design

                                                February 26, 1990

To:  Editors of Internal Digital Publications, Librarians, Data
     Centers, AI-related groups & lists, VTX Listings, Training & 
      Info Centers, Resource Rooms, ACT staff, Libraries, Personnel
      /PA Staff & Consultants, NOTES

From: Barbara Holtz, Ed Services Corporate Marketing, BUO/E10,
      DTN: 249-1454 (617-276-1454)   exit26:: or @BUO

Subject: Digital Press Announces LISP: Style and Design

        ATTENTION !  Due to internal pricing and ordering procedures
        this memo's information is for INTERNAL USE ONLY ... even
        though its contents are applicable to product information
        for customers.  Thanks for your attention.

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                   AI  APPLICATION  PROGRAMMERS

Application programmers, researchers, engineers, AI professionals ..... 
particularly those who design and develop programs using LISP, who wish to
learn more about increasing your productivity in this language or who
want to know more about the LISP language. This new Digital Press title
may help you to increase your effectiveness and to develop additional on-
the-job skill.

                   PLEASE  POST  OR DISTRIBUTE

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LISP: Style and Design, by Molly Miller and Eric Benson Part No. EY-C199E-DP
List Price: $26.95    US Digital Employee Price: $13.48

This book is not a primer on LISP. It assumes your basic background in
LISP programming. Its purpose is to enhance your programming in LISP 
programming, so that your work is more efficient.

LISP: Style and Design explores a process of style for LISP programmers, 
taking a holistic approach that comprises efficient algorithms, effective
organisation, appropriate abstractions, well-constructed function 
demonstrations, useful commentary, and efficient debugging.

Using a large program as an example, this book covers such topics as: how
to organize a large programming problem; keeping clean intermodule interfaces;
establishing abstraction barriers; arranging program files; creating the
appropriate documentation; and effective debugging style.

You see how the program develops as actual coding is captured in a text
file. This example illustrates concepts that are described in the text but 
which require additional enhancement.

About the authors:
Molly Miller is the manager of technical publications and training for
Lucid, Inc., Menlo Park, CA. She has done graduate work in symbolic and
heuristic computation at Stanford University.

Eric Benson, co-founder of Lucid, Inc. is a principal scientist - also at 
Lucid, Inc. He has designed and implemented a new compiler for Lucid Common 
LISP and was the principal designer and implementer of the virtual machine 
specification for that product.


      Additional, popular subject-relevant Digital Press titles:

COMMON LISP: The Language,  Second Edition, by Guy L. Steele     Part No.
Hardbound edition: U.S. Digital employee cost: $22.48         EY-C194E-DP
Softbound edition: U.S. Digital employee cost: $19.48         EY-C187E-DP
List price: $44.95 (Hardbound) and $38.95 (Softbound)

A PROGRAMMER'S GUIDE TO COMMON LISP (by Deborah Tatar)    EY-6706E-DP
(Cost to U.S. Digital employees: $ 12.50; List price: $25)


                           ORDERING INFORMATION

U.S. Digital employees may order these Digital Press books through an internal 
charge to cost centers, by sending a VAXmail memo to CECV03::mailpo or an 
ALL-IN-1 memo to MAILPO @BKO. If you are making a personal purchase by
credit card, be sure to include your card number and expiration date.
On your written memo, please include your name, badge #, cost center #, full 
facility address with mail stop, quantity, title, part number. 

Overseas employees are encouraged to order books through your local Digital 
training centers or subsidiaries. A further note to overseas employees: 
internal prices may vary according to country-specific financial guidelines.

If you are ordering for personal use, you may pay by credit card (MasterCard 
or Visa only); however, be sure to include your card number and expiration 
date.