Ground-Up Java

Philip Heller

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To Laura, on whose violin
Are played the songs of spheres and heroes,
Above this world’s mortal din,
Above the plane of ones and zeroes.

Acknowledgements

First and foremost gratitude to Denise Santoro Lincoln, Tom Cirtin, and Steve Cavin. Thanks to Michelle, Ricardo, and everyone at PB&G Productions for keeping me out dancing when I should have been writing. Thanks always to Simon Roberts, Suzanne Blackstock, and Kathy Collina. And thanks to all the aces at Sybex: Dennis Fitzgerald, Sean Medlock, Kevin Ly, Dan Mummert, and Maureen Forys and Jeff Wilson at Happenstance Type-O-Rama.