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authorJoel E. Denny <joeldenny@joeldenny.org>2011-02-06 08:59:05 -0500
committerJoel E. Denny <joeldenny@joeldenny.org>2011-02-06 13:15:10 -0500
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doc: give credit to more of Bison's developers.
* doc/bison.texinfo (Introduction): Don't imply that only Robert Corbett, Richard Stallman, and Wilfred Hansen have contributed to Bison. However, I don't have time to write a full history, so just point readers to THANKS and ChangeLog.
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@@ -371,9 +371,13 @@ last. If you don't know Bison or Yacc, start by reading these
chapters. Reference chapters follow, which describe specific aspects
of Bison in detail.
-Bison was written primarily by Robert Corbett; Richard Stallman made it
-Yacc-compatible. Wilfred Hansen of Carnegie Mellon University added
-multi-character string literals and other features.
+Bison was written originally by Robert Corbett. Richard Stallman made
+it Yacc-compatible. Wilfred Hansen of Carnegie Mellon University
+added multi-character string literals and other features. Since then,
+Bison has grown more robust and evolved many other new features thanks
+to the hard work of a long list of volunteers. For details, see the
+@file{THANKS} and @file{ChangeLog} files included in the Bison
+distribution.
This edition corresponds to version @value{VERSION} of Bison.
@@ -10875,5 +10879,5 @@ grammatically indivisible. The piece of text it represents is a token.
@c LocalWords: superclasses boolean getErrorVerbose setErrorVerbose deftypecv
@c LocalWords: getDebugStream setDebugStream getDebugLevel setDebugLevel url
@c LocalWords: bisonVersion deftypecvx bisonSkeleton getStartPos getEndPos
-@c LocalWords: getLVal defvar deftypefn deftypefnx gotos msgfmt
+@c LocalWords: getLVal defvar deftypefn deftypefnx gotos msgfmt Corbett
@c LocalWords: subdirectory Solaris nonassociativity