Language/OS - Multiplatform Resource Library/LANGUAGE OS.iso/lisp/wcl-21.lha/wcl-2.1/doc/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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The following people or groups contributed something to this project
(probably without knowing it):

Parts of CMU Spice Lisp (notably FORMAT) are used in the system.
Here's the notice on all the CMU sources:
;;; **********************************************************************
;;; This code was written as part of the Spice Lisp project at
;;; Carnegie-Mellon University, and has been placed in the public domain.
;;; If you want to use this code or any part of Spice Lisp, please contact
;;; Scott Fahlman (FAHLMAN@CMUC).
;;; **********************************************************************

DEC provided a bignum package with the following acknowledgement:
This package was initially developed at INRIA by J. Vuillemin. The
following people have greatly contributed to bring it to it's present
state: Patrice Bertin, Hans Boehm, Jerome Chailloux, Michel Gangnet,
Jean Claude Herve, Jim Lawton, Francois Morain, David Salesin, Mark Shand,
Bernard Serpette, Glenn Sills, Jean Vuillemin.
distribution: [e-mail]

Thanks to Joel Bartlett for his garbage collector ideas, his pointer
to the DEC bignum code, and beer and closures.  You can get copies of
his papers from the DECWRL archive server ([e-mail]).

Thanks to by Glenn Gribble ([e-mail]) for providing a C++
version of a dynamic file loader for SPARC. This loader was rewritten
in C and modified to support Lisp.

Thanks to Mark Kantrowitz at CMU for the logical pathname code.

Thanks to Kent Pitman for a sample implementation of the Condition System.

Guy Steele for his implementation of backquote in Cltl2.

Thanks to the Center for Design Research and especially Jeff Aldrich
for supplying me with the machine cycles and disk space to work on
this project.  Also, thanks to Fred Lakin and the Performing Graphics
Company for testing WCL with VMACS.