I then spent the next two years writing late at night at our home. Publishers were still behind the digital revolution. I wanted to format the book using MS Word 4.0. I had the entire text in one file. It worked great.
However, the Addison-Wesley editors worked on double-spaced proofs. I was fortunate enough to have my own Apple LaserWriter Plus, so I would set the default style in MS Word to double-spacing, and then I would print out a rough draft. As a result, all of my hard work of formatting source code properly was thrown out of the window. Arrgggghhh. I then had to mail the 800 pages via Federal Express. I did this several times. This was painful.
Finally I got the edits done properly and got them to quit trying to change the source code listings -- because their changes would make the source code no longer valid to compile -- and we were done in late 1989.
Seeing huge piles of my book at Stacey's Books in downtown Palo Alto on University Avenue was a great sight!
I have yet to write another book.
Created: 24 May 2026 Modified: 27 May 2026