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Title: The Art of the Metabobject Protocol by Gregor Kiczales, Jim desRivières, Daniel G. Bobrow ISBN: 0-262-11158-6 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 30 July, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Authoritative, but less useful than it could be
Comment: As a presentation of how to implement the Metaobject Protocol, this is about as authoritative a presentation of CLOS as can exist, short of being a formal (dry!) standards document.
Unfortunately, it falls way short in motivating the USE of the MOP. It shows how it is implemented, and has some examples of how to modify its behaviour. Which is wonderfully useful if your interest is in building your own implementation of MOP. It is not nearly so useful if you're trying to figure out how to apply it to less extraordinary purposes.
To that end, Keene's book on CLOS, which demonstrates quite a number of usage examples, is a vital companion...
Rating: 4
Summary: Highly recommended, but fell short of my expectations
Comment: This was a disappointing purchase for me, as I read some of the book on-line (in CMU-CL's "Encycmuclopedia") and was rather stunned at the beauty and possibilities of the MOP (which, in short, is defining the core object system itself in terms of the object system, allowing you to use the full power of the object system class hierarchy/relationships to control your object semantics). The book is a pretty straight forward implentation discussion, which is certainly nice as a case study in implementing such an interrelated system and boot-strapping the MOP into use, but it is only that. The MOP is one of those perfect ideas with such vast potential that I would much rather have seen actual expressions of that potential instead of mere inner working details. If I'd know that, I would not have bought it--but then neither will I be selling my copy.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must if want to control your Object Inheritence Mechanisms
Comment: This book is the first so far to completely discuss the mechanisms of the Metaobject Protocol. This is an advanced treatment and will be of value to the experienced Lisp programmer. The book covers all aspects of the MOP in great detail and when the reader has finished it, he or she will be very comfortable with CLOS mechanisms, and even more importantly, why these features have been implemented in the ways that they have.
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Title: Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS by Sonya E. Keene ISBN: 0201175894 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec, Kathleen Callaway ISBN: 0521562473 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
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Title: ANSI Common LISP by Paul Graham ISBN: 0133708756 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 02 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $47.00 |
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Title: Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming : Case Studies in Common Lisp by Peter Norvig ISBN: 1558601910 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $66.95 |
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Title: Object-Oriented Common LISP by Stephen Slade ISBN: 0136059406 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 30 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $52.67 |
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