Subject: Comp.compilers 1990 Annual From: compilers-request@iecc.com (John R. Levine) Organization: Compilers Central Keywords: administrivia Approved: compilers@iecc.com NOTE: This is a monthly repost of the message about the printed version of the 1990 comp.compilers message. Books can be ordered via fax or e-mail and charged to a credit card, see below. This is the only printed annual because nobody's volunteered to turn later years' messages into printable form. It's a lot of work, several people have started and given up, but if you're interested, drop me a line at compilers-request@iecc.com 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 sales tax for copies delivered in New York, plus appropriate postage and packaging per copy: Pickup in Trumansburg 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 by check or credit card. For credit card orders, see below. For check orders, send a check payable to I.E.C.C. along with the delivery address. We cannot take purchase orders or COD orders. Foreign orders must be prepaid in U.S. dollars, preferably by credit card 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: I.E.C.C. P.O. Box 640 Trumansburg NY 14886 The book is also available at list price from several bookstores. 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. We now accept Master Card and Visa credit cards. Credit card orders may be placed by mail, by fax to +1 607 387 5244, or by electronic mail to compilers-request@iecc.com. Card number: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Exp _ _ / _ _ Amount: $ ________ Signature: ___________________________________________