On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Roger Burton West wrote:
> >The main meat of the book be lots of introductory stuff, with extensive
> >examples and tutorials.
>
> I suspect this might best be a separate book, written by someone other
> than Philip; he's probably the only person who can write an "advanced"
> book, while quite a lot of us on the list would be able to contribute
> to a "basic" book.
Indeed. I have said that myself several times over the last few years.
But so far, nobody has volunteered to write that "basic" book. Actually,
that's not true. One was started, but the author was not able to
continue with it, which IMHO was a great pity.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
