[Haskell-cafe] The implementation of Functional

[John Meacham]

I have all the tiffs but just have not had time to convert them to a pdf
appropriate for cafepress to print up. Sorry for the delays.  
        John


On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:21:57PM -0500, robert dockins wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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