I am working on a book with Brian and Andy on the Fan language and would like to put out a call for anyone willing to either help author or review the book. Both roles would involve monetary compensation which will of course be directly proportional to the success of the language and the book. It's currently in proposal phase with chunks of Chapter 1 laid out.

We're planning on coordinating the book roughly with a 1.0 release of Fan. In tone it will be more like The Little Schemer than a typical reference book, and will focus primarily on the core of the language. Obviously, with Fan still evolving as a language, there will be challenges synchronizing everything.

If you're interested, reply here and we can get in touch offline.

Great news!

I might help review some, but I probably won't commit enough to ask for money.

I'm interested in doing review.

I've written a number of best-selling technical books. I'd be interested in writing about several aspects of Fan. Shoot me an e-mail (first name followed by n-brain.net).

I have the Little Schemer, and the format drives me absolutely nuts. I can appreciate stepping outside of the norm in designing a book for Fan, but please be more sensible than the Little Schemer!

I'd like to help review.

Thanks for the offers. I'll forward reviewer names as we go along, and I'll get in touch with anyone interested in writing.

re: The Little Schemer I said more like - it will not be exclusively q+a and pb+j. I love The Little Schemer, but definitely appreciate that the format limits is accessibility by driving otherwise sane people nuts.

I was a technical reviewer for Steve Holden's book, _Python Web Programming_, and would be willing to tech review for you on this project.

I'd love to get to review the book as well.

Thanks jtobler and tactics, I've forwarded your contact info along as well.

I'd be happy to review and/or contribute. I've written books on programming published by Addison-Wesley and Intel Press, and I regularly review books as a judge for the Jolt award. Contact me at ditch0701 <at> pz (.) o-r-g And I'll contact you back with my regular (non-spam-protected) address.

Looking forward!

hey! i guess i'd love to help out a bit.. ..maybe with the code samples and stuff, like FFI and so on.. contact me here, or at my email ID: [email protected]

Just wondering how the book is progressing, and when publication may be?

Kevin, who was heading this up, has moved on to other things - so this effort has stalled unless someone else wants to take ownership of the project. As we close in on a 1.0 release it would be great to having a reference like this in the works. So if anyone else might be interested let us know!

Did Kevin leave behind any work in progress? I know he was looking for input on the book. I still have my feedback to his initial draft of the table of contents if anyone wants it.

Doesn't look like things moved beyond that initial TOC you mentioned.

What is the state of this book? Is there any mercurial repository here?

Thanks, Xan.

Nothing has been done on this front.

It were interesting to mimetize the perl6 book structure. I think it's factible. But it depends on time of people know reeally Fantom language (mee not, although I could check code or write draw diagrams).

Xan.