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- From: compilers-request@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
- Subject: Comp.compilers 1990 Annual
- Expires: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 23:59:00 GMT
- Organization: Compilers Central
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 12:00:14 GMT
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- Message-ID: <book-Jan-93@comp.compilers>
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- NOTE: This is a monthly repost of the message about the printed version of
- the 1990 comp.compilers message.
-
- Comp.compilers 1990 Annual
- Edited by John R. Levine
-
- The Comp.compilers 1990 Annual is a printed edition of the messages posted
- to the usenet newsgroup comp.compilers in 1990. Usenet is an informal
- distributed electronic bulletin board system connecting thousands of
- computers around the world. Most of the systems attached to it run some
- version of Unix, though others systems ranging from MS-DOS personal
- computers to Cray mainframes now participate. Comp.compilers is a
- moderated usenet news group addressing the topics of compilers in
- particular and programming language design and implementation in general.
- It started in 1986 as a moderated mailing list, but interest quickly grew
- to the point where it was promoted to a news group. Recent topics have
- included optimization techniques, language design issues, announcements of
- new compiler tools, and book reviews.
-
- Messages come from a wide variety of people ranging from undergraduate
- students to well-known experts in industry and academia. Authors live all
- over the world - there are regular messages from the U.S, Canada, Europe,
- Australia, and Japan, with occasional ones from as far away as Malaysia.
- The anarchic nature of usenet makes it impossible to tell how large the
- readership is, but the total is probably in the tens of thousands.
-
- The book's contents include 807 of the year's total 914 messages, leaving
- out only administrative messages and unanswered questions. The messages
- themselves are unedited except for removing boilerplate header and trailer
- lines.
-
- The book is 604 pages, each 11 x 8.5 inches with two pages of text side by
- side in reasonably legible 8 point type. Messages are grouped by topic
- (C, optimization, book reviews, etc.) and within each topic messages in a
- thread are grouped together. There is a permuted subject index, a keyword
- index, and an author index. The book is GBC bound, a plastic spiral
- binding that lies flat.
-
- Pricing
-
- The price is $40 per book, plus $2 sales tax for copies delivered in
- Massachusetts, plus appropriate postage and packaging per copy:
-
- Pick up in Cambridge free | Foreign surface $10
- U.S. surface $3 | Foreign airmail:
- U.S. priority $5 | Americas $12
- U.S. Federal Express $20 | Europe $20
- Canada $7 | All other $30
-
- No further discounts apply on single copies of the book, as this price is
- pre-discounted from the list price of $50. Quantity discounts and
- shipping charges for large or unusual orders can be negotiated.
-
- How to order
-
- All orders must be prepaid. Send a check payable to I.E.C.C. along with
- the delivery address. We cannot take purchase orders, credit cards, or
- COD orders. Foreign orders must be prepaid in U.S. dollars, preferably by
- a check on a U.S. bank, but anything our bank can handle is acceptable.
- (They charge $20 extra for foreign checks and $5 for incoming bank wires.)
-
- The mailing address is:
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- I.E.C.C.
- P.O. Box 349
- Cambridge MA 02238-0349
-
- The book is also available at list price from several bookstores.
- Being real bookstores, they take credit cards and the like.
-
- Computer Literacy Bookshop, 2590 N 1st St, San Jose CA 95131
- +1 408 435 1118, orders@clbooks.com
-
- Quantum Books, 4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge MA 02141
- +1 617 494 5042, quanbook@world.std.com
-
- The book has ISBN 0-944954-02-2, and is under the imprint of Center Book
- Publishers, Inc.
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