It's done!

From: Peter Seibel (peter_at_gigamonkeys.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:48:12 GMT

Yesterday I turned in the final page proofs of the last four chapters
of _Practical Common Lisp_[1]. The book goes to the printer March 4th
and should be available at a bookstore near you on April 11th. I want
to thank the denizens of comp.lang.lisp for all your help. To quote
from the Acknowledgements section of the book:

  One of my most indispensable resources while working on the book was
  the newsgroup comp.lang.lisp. The comp.lang.lisp regulars answered
  what must have seemed to them an endless stream of questions about
  various aspects of Lisp and its history. I also turned frequently to
  the Google archives for the group, a treasure trove of technical
  expertise. So, thanks to Google for making them available and to all
  comp.lang.lisp participants past and present for providing the
  content. In particular, I'd like to recognize two long-time
  comp.lang.lisp contributors--Barry Margolin, who has been providing
  tidbits of Lisp history and his own brand of quiet wisdom for as
  long as I've been reading the group; and Kent Pitman, who, in
  addition to having been one of the principal technical editors of
  the language standard and the author of the Common Lisp HyperSpec,
  has written hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of words in
  comp.lang.lisp postings elucidating various aspects of the language
  and how it came to be.

So thanks.

-Peter

[1] <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/> 

-- 
Peter Seibel                                     peter@gigamonkeys.com
         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp

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