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- Acknowledgments for the 0.4 distribution.
-
- The Marlais interpreter was started as a quick implementation by Brent
- Benson (Brent.Benson@mail.csd.harris.com), who wanted an
- implementation of Dylan to experiment with. The first version was
- churned out in a short period of time (weeks) by Brent.
-
- I first happened upon Marlais in Version 0.3 (Nov. 1993). I wanted to
- use it as a language vehicle for a small portion of a course in
- Object-Oriented Programming I taught in the spring of 1994 at the
- University of Florida. I realized there were some limitations to the
- system, but that Marlais was very accessible and modifiable. I hacked
- in the features that I wanted to use, but then got interested in the
- language in a more serious way.
-
- I embarked on systematically adding Dylan Design Note changes in about
- May of 1994. I contacted Brent and told him about my efforts. I said
- I'd be glad to produce a Version 0.4 of the interpreter. Brent said
- he was glad to have someone breathe new life into the project. Later
- in the month, Patrick Beard (beard@cs.ucdavis.edu) started contributing
- numerous suggestions and corrections (esp. w.r.t. porting to Mac) that I
- incorporated into the current Marlais version. Brent and
- Bri Carlstrom (bdc@ai.mit.edu) also provided helpful porting feedback.
-
- "...My ark sings in the sun
- At God speeded summer's end
- And the flood flowers now."
-
- Dylan M. Thomas
- Author's Prologue
- The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
-
- Joseph N. Wilson
- (jnw@cis.ufl.edu)
-
- Acknowledgments for the 0.5 distribution:
-
- More thanks are necessary to Patrick Beard for helpful fixes and suggestions
- and for his work on the Mac version.
- Brent helped with configuration checking.
- Randy Fischer helped with Linux configuration checking.
- Thanks to Steve Strassmann for pointing out several blatantly obvious errors
- just before release.
-
-
- Most of all, though, thanks to you for reading the acknowledgments and
- sharing some of your time to make this product useful.
-
- Acknowledgments since 0.5:
-
- Roger Critchlow was quite helpful in providing solutions to header
- parsing using start contexts with flex.
- Patrick Beard has made many more improvements to the mac interface
- (which are not seen in the unix distribution) and has provided some
- more fixes to the base code and is now engaged in translating init.dyl
- to infix.
-