I would like to thank David for his patience while we were figuring out how to get his book into print. I would also like to thank Cornelia for designing the beautiful stylized cons cell for the cover, Mary-Suzanne for creating the illustrations and Martin for his perseverance as the editor of Successful Lisp.

I'll have a drink now!

Hi,
Got an action shot for you there:
It is the olive green cons cell shirt [1] and as you can see, the car is pointing at me while the cdr is pointing at my girlfriend. So we are a dotted pair - Lisp is able to express everything. ;)
Nice shirt btw, nice cons cell and good quality.
Rene van Bevern
Pro-Linux.de

Avalon is a set of linguistic constructs designed to give programmers explicit control over transaction-based processing of atomic objects for fault-tolerant applications.

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We are working on the final revision of Successful Lisp and it will be in print soon.

I met with Conrad Barsky while he was in Frankfurt. He's a very bright guy and we had lot's of fun talking about Lisp and programming in general. He'll move to New York soon.

I'll be attending the lisp-hh [1] [2] meeting on 28th of November. Hope to meet Edi Weitz there. We'll be discussing a new book project.

We will now do a careful check of the galley proof, add any last minute corrections, upload the new book block and after that we're in print!