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1.1       deraadt     1:      Berkeley Yacc owes much to the unflagging efforts of Keith Bostic.
                      2: His badgering kept me working on it long after I was ready to quit.
                      3:
                      4:      Berkeley Yacc is based on the excellent algorithm for computing LALR(1)
                      5: lookaheads developed by Tom Pennello and Frank DeRemer.  The algorithm is
                      6: described in their almost impenetrable article in TOPLAS 4,4.
                      7:
                      8:      Finally, much of the credit for the latest version must go to those
                      9: who pointed out deficiencies of my earlier releases.  Among the most
                     10: prolific contributors were
                     11:
                     12:          Benson I. Margulies
                     13:          Dave Gentzel
                     14:          Antoine Verheijen
                     15:          Peter S. Housel
                     16:          Dale Smith
                     17:          Ozan Yigit
                     18:          John Campbell
                     19:          Bill Sommerfeld
                     20:          Paul Hilfinger
                     21:          Gary Bridgewater
                     22:          Dave Bakken
                     23:          Dan Lanciani
                     24:          Richard Sargent
                     25:          Parag Patel