Received: from www.wgcr.org (IDENT:root@www.wgcr.org [206.74.232.194]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA74022; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:11:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lamar.owen@wgcr.org) Received: from wgcr.org ([206.74.232.197]) by www.wgcr.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA14899; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:09:43 -0400 Message-ID: <380F2CB1.27DE3A2@wgcr.org> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:09:37 -0400 From: Lamar Owen Organization: WGCR Internet Radio X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Becker CC: "'Bruce Momjian'" , "'Dmitry Samersoff'" , "'Vince Vielhaber'" , "'Oliver Elphick'" , "'PostgreSQL-documentation'" , PostgreSQL-development@candle.pha.pa.us, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, "'Jan Wieck'" Subject: Re: [DOCS] Re: [HACKERS] Outline for PostgreSQL book References: <000101bf1bd1$bf28cc20$f754f6d1@prenhall.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Paul Becker wrote: > a good read. I'm sure he embellished a lot on his experiences. He strikes > me as being a puckish kind of guy, somewhat rare amongst engineers. Read > some of his other material. A Day at the Zoo is a good one. And "Travels with Samantha" is a hoot. His coding style is very similar to his writing style -- lispish. But, then again, he's an old-hand MIT LISP hacker. You should read his tcl one day -- I've laughed till I've cried over some of his code. (I don't know if that's more of a statement about his coding style, or about my reading habits.....) Philip is certainly an interesting writer. Oh, BTW, Bruce, "You're Welcome." Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11