The online-readable copy is all ready to go. I'm just awaiting a final "ok" from Marnie and I'll announce it. For a paper copy we'll await John's Cafepress efforts. Much thanks to both Marnie and John. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of | robert dockins | Sent: 06 January 2005 19:22 | To: haskell-cafe | Subject: [Haskell-cafe] The implementation of Functional | | | The following discussion occurred last September. Is there any kind of | update on any version of this book? | | ----------------------------------------- | | John Meacham writes: | > > >I am looking for the book "The implementation of Functional | > > >Programming languages" by S. L. Peyton Jones. | | > > This book is out of print and currently there is no electronic version | > > of it. The Haskell bookstore folk are working on reconstructing it and | > > making it available for print-on-demand, | > > http://www.cafepress.com/haskell_books/, but it's not clear when | > > exactly it will be available. | > > | > > Your other option is to try to find a used copy, but they are pretty | > > expensive. | > | > I am working on getting that book available in the haskell bookstore. I | > searched quite a while before I found a used printed copy at a | > reasonable price and my search was part of my motivation for creating | > the bookstore. | > | > It is a bit trickier than the other books on the site because I only | > have a scanned in copy of the print version to work with, rather than | > LaTeX source. but I should have time this week to get it online. | > John | | My wife (mainly) and I, with Simon's permission, have been working on | getting a web-enabled version of this available for quite some time. It | hovers on the brink of completion, and should be there Real Soon Now as | well. This will include a web enabled table of contents and next and back | buttons. | | If I'd known how much time she would put in, I'd have never asked her for "a | small favor"....... | | Dave Barton | EDAptive Computing | | _______________________________________________ | Haskell-Cafe mailing list | Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe