The current developers of Gawk would like to thank and acknowledge the many people who have contributed to the development through bug reports and fixes and suggestions. Unfortunately, we have not been organized enough to keep track of all the names -- for that we apologize. Another group of people have assisted even more by porting Gawk to new platforms and providing a great deal of feedback. They are: Hal Peterson (Cray) Pat Rankin (VMS) Michal Jaegermann (Atari, NeXT, DEC 3100) Mike Lijewski (IBM RS6000) Scott Deifik (MSDOS 2.14 and 2.15) Kent Williams (MSDOS 2.11) Conrad Kwok (MSDOS earlier versions) Scott Garfinkle (MSDOS earlier versions) Kai Uwe Rommel (OS/2) Darrel Hankerson (OS/2) Mark Moraes (Code Center, Purify) Kaveh Ghazi (Lots of Unix variants) Last, but far from least, we would like to thank Brian Kernighan who has helped to clear up many dark corners of the language and provided a restraining touch when we have been overly tempted by "feeping creaturism".