viper: Acknowledgments

 
 Acknowledgments
 ***************
 
 Viper, formerly known as VIP-19, was written by Michael Kifer.  Viper is
 based on the original VIP package by Masahiko Sato and on its
 enhancement, VIP 4.4, by Aamod Sane.  This manual is an adaptation of
 the manual for VIP 4.4, which, in turn, was based on Sato’s manual for
 VIP 3.5.
 
    Many contributors on the Net pointed out bugs and suggested a number
 of useful features.  Scott Bronson and Samuel Padgett contributed
 patches that were incorporated in this code.  Here is a hopefully
 complete list of contributors:
 
      aaronl@vitelus.com (Aaron Lehmann),
      ahg@panix.com (Al Gelders),
      amade@diagram.fr (Paul-Bernard Amade),
      ascott@fws214.intel.com (Andy Scott),
      bronson@trestle.com (Scott Bronson),
      cook@biostat.wisc.edu (Tom Cook),
      csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton),
      dave@hellgate.utah.edu,
      dm@scs.cs.nyu.edu (David Mazieres),
      dominik@strw.LeidenUniv.nl (Carsten Dominik),
      dwallach@cs.princeton.edu (Dan Wallach),
      dwight@toolucky.llnl.gov (Dwight Shih),
      dxc@xprt.net (David X Callaway),
      edmonds@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds),
      gin@mo.msk.ru (Golubev I.N.),
      gviswana@cs.wisc.edu (Guhan Viswanathan),
      gvr@halcyon.com (George V. Reilly),
      hatazaki@bach.convex.com (Takao Hatazaki),
      hpz@ibmhpz.aug.ipp-garching.mpg.de (Hans-Peter Zehrfeld),
      irie@t.email.ne.jp (Irie Tetsuya),
      jackr@dblues.engr.sgi.com (Jack Repenning),
      jamesm@bga.com (D.J. Miller II),
      jjm@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Jean-Jacques Moreau),
      jl@cse.ogi.edu (John Launchbury),
      jobrien@hchp.org (John O'Brien),
      johnw@borland.com (John Wiegley),
      kanze@gabi-soft.fr (James Kanze),
      kin@isi.com (Kin Cho),
      kwzh@gnu.org (Karl Heuer),
      lindstro@biostat.wisc.edu (Mary Lindstrom),
      lektu@terra.es (Juanma Barranquero),
      lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se (Lennart Borgman),
      minakaji@osaka.email.ne.jp (Mikio Nakajima),
      Mark.Bordas@East.Sun.COM (Mark Bordas),
      meyering@comco.com (Jim Meyering),
      martin@xemacs.org (Martin Buchholz),
      mbutler@redfernnetworks.com (Malcolm Butler),
      mveiga@dit.upm.es (Marcelino Veiga Tuimil),
      paulk@summit.esg.apertus.com (Paul Keusemann),
      pfister@cs.stonybrook.edu (Hanspeter Pfister),
      phil_brooks@MENTORG.COM (Phil Brooks),
      pogrell@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Lutz Pogrell),
      pradyut@cs.uchicago.edu (Pradyut Shah),
      roderick@argon.org (Roderick Schertler),
      rxga@ulysses.att.com,
      sawdey@lcse.umn.edu (Aaron Sawdey),
      simonb@prl.philips.co.uk (Simon Blanchard),
      spadgett1@nc.rr.com (Samuel Padgett),
      stephen@farrell.org (Stephen Farrell),
      storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm),
      sudish@MindSpring.COM (Sudish Joseph),
      schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab)
      terra@diku.dk (Morten Welinder),
      thanh@informatics.muni.cz (Han The Thanh),
      toma@convex.convex.com,
      vrenjak@sun1.racal.com (Milan Vrenjak),
      whicken@dragon.parasoft.com (Wendell Hicken),
      zapman@cc.gatech.edu (Jason Zapman II),