Sorry, actually it was late 1999, in case that makes any difference to anybody.

Noel

>Late 1998 -- and that wasn't exactly their reason.  Mostly they just 
>didn't see the size of the audience as being large enough to justify the 
>book.  If you look at the languages that they do publish Nutshell style 
>books about... Java, Perl, Python... it seems clear that all of them have 
>a much larger user base than Squeak.  So I think that was more the reason.
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>Ironically, the book I did finally wind up working on for them probably 
>has a much smaller current user base than Squeak (Jython), but a quite 
>large potential user base.
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>Noel, who wants to thank you for giving me my first public chance to plug...
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