aluminum book

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aluminum book - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Aluminum Book
  CLtL2
  
     <publication>
  
     ["Common LISP: The Language, 2nd Edition", Guy L. Steele Jr.
     , Digital Press 1990, ISBN 1-55558-041-6].
  
     Due to a technical screwup some printings of the second
     edition are actually what the author calls "yucky green".
  
     On-line version (http://cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html)
     .
  
     See also book titles.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1997-06-25)
  

aluminum book - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Aluminum Book
   n.
  
     [MIT] Common LISP: The Language, by Guy L. Steele Jr. (Digital Press,
     first edition 1984, second edition 1990). Note that due to a
  technical
     screwup some printings of the second edition are actually of a color
     the author describes succinctly as "yucky green". See also book titles
     .