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Sun Java books (4 of them in the works).
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles L. Perkins)
Sat Sep 30 20:46:28 1995
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 95 18:24:36 -0400
From: "Charles L. Perkins" <clp@home.HarvardSq.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Cc: java-porting@java.sun.com, hotjava-interest@java.sun.com
Everyone,
Just FYI I was talking to Bill Joy a bit at the Java Day in NYC
and he mentioned that they are currently planning to split up
the (originally single) Java book into 4 smaller books that can
be finished and published separately:
(1) A reference manual, carefully and cleanly worded, that will
describe the language in the detail you'd need to write a
compiler yourself (or to be a very good Java programmer).
(2) A K&R-style (though a little less dry) programming manual.
(3) A Virtual Machine specification, complete enough to be all
you need to implement the ("C") runtime yourself.
(4) A class library description. This plus (1) is essentially
all you need to know as a programmer, though (2) may be an
easier read for beginners.
There are no dates on these books, but I'm guessing that (1)
may be finished in 1-2 months and available in 3-6 perhaps?
(Just an educated guess---Sun has said nothing about dates.)
All this is based on a short conversation, so any errors or
misrepresentations are my own.
Charles L. Perkins
Virtual Rendezvous
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