UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO - STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
The Department of Computer Science & Engineering

STUART C. SHAPIRO: CSE 202

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Part III: PROGRAMMING IN IMPERATIVE LISP Parts I and II of this book (and course) have been devoted to "pure" Lisp, the part of Common Lisp that is an applicative, or functional, programming language. In Part III, we will cover some of the imperative parts of Common Lisp, including the assignment statement; sequences of imperative statements; iteration; input and output. Just because we are now going to use imperative constructs, you should not ignore the style you have learned in Part II, and slip into programming in "C with parentheses". One of the things you should learn in this course is when to use a functional style and when to use an imperative style. Once you learn that, you can make use of a functional style where appropriate even when programming with imperative programming languages.

Stuart C. Shapiro <shapiro@cse.buffalo.edu>