No, Tom Cargill wrote pi. It was an early C++ program.

Bart designed the Blit and Gnot.

-rob


On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 5:04 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> IIRC, he wrote the "pi" debugger, which was a GUI debugger for
> the Blit. Also IIRC, it was one of the first significant programs
> written in C++.
>
> (I never saw it, but I'm pretty sure I read a paper about it.)
>
> Arnold
>
> "Calvin Morrison" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > thank you for the information. also thank you bart!
> >
> > Calvin
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2026, at 5:29 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
> > > Bart Locanthi.
> > >
> > > -rob
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 4:37 AM Calvin Morrison <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >> __
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> In ACME there is the wonderful bartflag which implements a 'focus
> follows click' style. Wonderfully useful for us with trouble selecting
> taglines efficiently.
> > >>
> > >> Unable to think of any acroynm or abbreviation that bart could be I
> must assume it is just a moniker.
> > >>
> > >> Who is bart?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Calvin
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