Hi Bill,
I've placed a first crack at a table of contents here:
http://hww3.riverweb.com/dist/PikeManual.txt
Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated (additions, deletions, reorganizations, etc)
Very good :)
However, there are few things I think might be good (especially in a paper book) in the first chapter like "What is Pike ?", "Pike compared to other languages". For the chapter II, I would start first by a simple Pike program like hello world.