Tom Pittman is an American

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. He was a founding member of the Homebrew Computer Club and known for coauthoring ''The Art of Compiler Design'' (1992).

Biography

Pittman received a BA in Math from the

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in 1966 and a PhD in Computer and Information Science at

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in 1985. Pittman was a founding member of the Homebrew Computer Club, who created a personal computer based on the low-powered Intel 4004 chip and maintained the Homebrew mailing list. In two months, he wrote a Tiny BASIC interpreter for the Motorola 6800, selling it for only five dollars. He and James Peters coauthored ''The Art of Compiler Design'' (1992), an important introductory textbook to

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and interpreter design.

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