From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Subject: Re: [9fans] tab stop poll
From: Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Date: Sat,  6 Mar 2004 01:17:16 +0000
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Well, funnily enough,
I met Bornat many years ago, and I was so put off by his arrogance
that I never read the book!

Also,
he was working on a lightweight pascal-based distributed OS ...

	Dave.

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 00:41, Geoff Collyer wrote:
> I know who Bornat is: Richard Bornat, author of Understanding and
> Writing Compilers, published by Macmillan and now tragically
> unavailable, the finest book on compiler-writing ever written
> (ignoring the incorrect figures).  So does Laura Creighton and Henry
> Spencer and Ian Darwin, all Canadians.
>