gawk: Acknowledgments

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1 Acknowledgments
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1 The initial draft of 'The GAWK Manual' had the following
1 acknowledgments:
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1      Many people need to be thanked for their assistance in producing
1      this manual.  Jay Fenlason contributed many ideas and sample
1      programs.  Richard Mlynarik and Robert Chassell gave helpful
1      comments on drafts of this manual.  The paper 'A Supplemental
1      Document for AWK' by John W. Pierce of the Chemistry Department at
1      UC San Diego, pinpointed several issues relevant both to 'awk'
1      implementation and to this manual, that would otherwise have
1      escaped us.
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1    I would like to acknowledge Richard M. Stallman, for his vision of a
1 better world and for his courage in founding the FSF and starting the
1 GNU Project.
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1    Earlier editions of this Info file had the following
1 acknowledgements:
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1      The following people (in alphabetical order) provided helpful
1      comments on various versions of this book: Rick Adams, Dr. Nelson
1      H.F. Beebe, Karl Berry, Dr. Michael Brennan, Rich Burridge, Claire
1      Cloutier, Diane Close, Scott Deifik, Christopher ("Topher") Eliot,
1      Jeffrey Friedl, Dr. Darrel Hankerson, Michal Jaegermann, Dr.
1      Richard J. LeBlanc, Michael Lijewski, Pat Rankin, Miriam Robbins,
1      Mary Sheehan, and Chuck Toporek.
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1      Robert J. Chassell provided much valuable advice on the use of
1      Texinfo.  He also deserves special thanks for convincing me _not_
1      to title this Info file 'How to Gawk Politely'.  Karl Berry helped
1      significantly with the TeX part of Texinfo.
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1      I would like to thank Marshall and Elaine Hartholz of Seattle and
1      Dr. Bert and Rita Schreiber of Detroit for large amounts of quiet
1      vacation time in their homes, which allowed me to make significant
1      progress on this Info file and on 'gawk' itself.
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1      Phil Hughes of SSC contributed in a very important way by loaning
1      me his laptop GNU/Linux system, not once, but twice, which allowed
1      me to do a lot of work while away from home.
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1      David Trueman deserves special credit; he has done a yeoman job of
1      evolving 'gawk' so that it performs well and without bugs.
1      Although he is no longer involved with 'gawk', working with him on
1      this project was a significant pleasure.
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1      The intrepid members of the GNITS mailing list, and most notably
1      Ulrich Drepper, provided invaluable help and feedback for the
1      design of the internationalization features.
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1      Chuck Toporek, Mary Sheehan, and Claire Cloutier of O'Reilly &
1      Associates contributed significant editorial help for this Info
1      file for the 3.1 release of 'gawk'.
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1    Dr. Nelson Beebe, Andreas Buening, Dr. Manuel Collado, Antonio
1 Colombo, Stephen Davies, Scott Deifik, Akim Demaille, Daniel Richard G.,
1 Juan Manuel Guerrero, Darrel Hankerson, Michal Jaegermann, Ju"rgen
1 Kahrs, Stepan Kasal, John Malmberg, Dave Pitts, Chet Ramey, Pat Rankin,
1 Andrew Schorr, Corinna Vinschen, and Eli Zaretskii (in alphabetical
1 order) make up the current 'gawk' "crack portability team."  Without
1 their hard work and help, 'gawk' would not be nearly the robust,
1 portable program it is today.  It has been and continues to be a
1 pleasure working with this team of fine people.
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1    Notable code and documentation contributions were made by a number of
1 people.  ⇒Contributors for the full list.
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1    Thanks to Michael Brennan for the Forewords.
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1    Thanks to Patrice Dumas for the new 'makeinfo' program.  Thanks to
1 Karl Berry, who continues to work to keep the Texinfo markup language
1 sane.
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1    Robert P.J. Day, Michael Brennan, and Brian Kernighan kindly acted as
1 reviewers for the 2015 edition of this Info file.  Their feedback helped
1 improve the final work.
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1    I would also like to thank Brian Kernighan for his invaluable
1 assistance during the testing and debugging of 'gawk', and for his
1 ongoing help and advice in clarifying numerous points about the
1 language.  We could not have done nearly as good a job on either 'gawk'
1 or its documentation without his help.
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1    Brian is in a class by himself as a programmer and technical author.
1 I have to thank him (yet again) for his ongoing friendship and for being
1 a role model to me for close to 30 years!  Having him as a reviewer is
1 an exciting privilege.  It has also been extremely humbling...
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1    I must thank my wonderful wife, Miriam, for her patience through the
1 many versions of this project, for her proofreading, and for sharing me
1 with the computer.  I would like to thank my parents for their love, and
1 for the grace with which they raised and educated me.  Finally, I also
1 must acknowledge my gratitude to G-d, for the many opportunities He has
1 sent my way, as well as for the gifts He has given me with which to take
1 advantage of those opportunities.
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1 Arnold Robbins
1 Nof Ayalon
1 Israel
1 February 2015
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