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<div class="chapter-level-extent" id="Guile-Implementation">
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Next: <a href="GNU-Free-Documentation-License.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">GNU Free Documentation License</a>, Previous: <a href="GOOPS.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">GOOPS</a>, Up: <a href="index.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">The Guile Reference Manual</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h2 class="chapter" id="Guile-Implementation-1"><span>9 Guile Implementation<a class="copiable-link" href="#Guile-Implementation-1"> ¶</a></span></h2>
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<p>At some point, after one has been programming in Scheme for some time,
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another level of Scheme comes into view: its implementation. Knowledge
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of how Scheme can be implemented turns out to be necessary to become
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an expert hacker. As Peter Norvig notes in his retrospective on
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PAIP<a class="footnote" id="DOCF35" href="#FOOT35"><sup>35</sup></a>, “The expert Lisp
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programmer eventually develops a good ‘efficiency model’.”
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</p>
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<p>By this Norvig means that over time, the Lisp hacker eventually
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develops an understanding of how much her code “costs” in terms of
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space and time.
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<p>This chapter describes Guile as an implementation of Scheme: its
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history, how it represents and evaluates its data, and its compiler.
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This knowledge can help you to make that step from being one who is
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merely familiar with Scheme to being a real hacker.
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<li><a href="History.html" accesskey="1">A Brief History of Guile</a></li>
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<li><a href="Data-Representation.html" accesskey="2">Data Representation</a></li>
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<li><a href="A-Virtual-Machine-for-Guile.html" accesskey="3">A Virtual Machine for Guile</a></li>
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<li><a href="Compiling-to-the-Virtual-Machine.html" accesskey="4">Compiling to the Virtual Machine</a></li>
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<h4 class="footnotes-heading">Footnotes</h4>
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<h5 class="footnote-body-heading"><a id="FOOT35" href="#DOCF35">(35)</a></h5>
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<p>PAIP is the common abbreviation for <cite class="cite">Paradigms of
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Artificial Intelligence Programming</cite>, an old but still useful text on
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Lisp. Norvig’s retrospective sums up the lessons of PAIP, and can be
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found at <a class="uref" href="http://norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html">http://norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html</a>.</p>
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