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Thank you for the kind words.  Yes, I pontificate much too frequently
and  am condescending in  several places--most  of these difficulties
stem from the origins as lecture notes. I've been trying to clean the
manuscript  since 1970,  but  every  time I  teach  it, the  contents
completely  revise. I'm currently  teaching it to 45  students at San
Jose, and have  already restructured the  first 80+ pages. Until  the
content reaches something like steady-state, I hate to spend too much
time with the style. 

I'm not sure  what you mean  about slick examples;  I hope it  wasn't
referring to abstract data structuring. 

As  to  publishing  it;   YES!  it's  got  to  get   published  soon.
American-Ele.  is looking  at it now as a member of the A-I series. I
don't feel its an A-I book, but at this point (4+ years of working on
it when I get "free" time) I don't care too much who publishes it. It
's  certainly not finished  yet and enlarging the  chapter on storage
and  efficiency, and  adding  more  in  the last  chapter  about  A-I
languages is easy, but will take time. 

My understanding is  that A-E is a branch  of North-Holland. Were you
referring to a different North-Holland limb? 

As soon as I revise the first parts, I send them along.