INTRODUCTION

There isn't introduction. There is a story instead:

 ...in 1903 F. N. Cole (1861-1927) proved that M67 [=(2^67)-1] is not prime. ..... At the October,1903, meeting in New York of the American Mathematical Society, Cole had a paper on the program with the  modest title "On the factorization of large numbers". When the chairman called on him for his paper, Cole - who was always a man of very few words - walked to the board and, saying nothing, proceeded to chalk up the arithmetic for raising 2 to the  sixty- seventh power. Then he carefully subtracted 1. Without  a word he moved over to a clear space on the board and multiplied out, by longhand, 193, 707, 721  *  761, 838, 257, 287.  The two calculations agreed. Mersenne's conjecture - if such  it was - vanished into the limbo of mathematical mythology. For the first and only time on record, an audience of the American Mathematical Society vigorously applauded the author of a paper delivered before it. Cole took his seat without having uttered a word. Nobody asked him a question.                           
- Eric Temple Bell. 
(In: James R. Newman (ed.), Volume I-IV The World of Mathematics. Simon and Schuster, New York 1956, p. 503)

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Patrick C. Beard                                       Dylan: Marlais
Brent Benson                                           Dylan: Marlais, Thomas            
Dominique Bernardi                              Pari
Thomas Braeunl                                     Parallaxis
Rob Chapman                                          Forth: Timbre
Tim Endres                                               TCL: Tickle
Wally Feurzeig                                         Logo
Mike Gallo                                                Oberon
Brian Kendig                                            XLisp
Mark Lentczner                                        Script: Glyphic 
Dave Lillie                                                 Hope
Emmett McLean                                       J
Per Mildner                                               Prolog: Tricia    -   Kvik
H. Moessenboeck                                     Coco/R
David H. Munro                                      Yorick
Ron Nicholson                                         Basic: chipmunk
Lars S. Nyland                                          Proteus
Ross Paterson                                           Hope
Michael Pazzani                                       FOCL
Rinus Plasmeijer                                     Clean
Rob Probin                                                Assembly: Fantasm
Guido van Rossum                                 Python
Ian Searle                                                   Matlab: RLaB
Paul Snively                                              Scheme
Jarno Tarkoma                                          Kevo
Paul M. Wexelblat                                    Logo
Joseph N. Wilson                                     Dylan: Marlais