I thought the Author *had* looked at the Tango source but claimed not to have used it?
See here: http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=18090
His English isn't perfect, but I took his statements to mean he did not read the source (as I re-asserted in a later message).
-Steve