Michael D. Brennan provided considerable inspiration with his excellent

Mawk product. Awka owes to Mawk the configure scripts, the AWK language

parser, and the idea that the language could be implemented for high

performance.

Thanks also to Arnold Robbins, maintainer of Gawk, for his ongoing encouragement

and helpfulness. The extensive test suite in Awka is mostly based on Gawk's

test suite and Gawk has led the way in new functionality, particularly with

version 3.1.0. The inet and coprocess functions in Awka were drawn directly

from Gawk, and were originally developed by Jürgen Kahrs.

Thanks to the many contributors to comp.lang.awk who made it clear that

a freely available awk-to-C translator was needed.

Finally, thanks in advance to everyone who reports bugs or offers

suggestions or constructive criticism, along with those who have already

contributed.

I along with everyone who uses Awka, owe special thanks to people who

have contributed with bug reports, suggestions and patches. Awka would

be a far poorer product without their help and encouragement. I've listed

these fine folk below in no particular order, and apologise if I've missed

anybody...

* Eiso AB <[email protected]>

* John H. DuBois III <[email protected]>

* chris proctor <[email protected]>

* Finn Drablos <[email protected]>

* Matthijs van Aalten <[email protected]>

* Phil Magson <[email protected]>

* Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt <[email protected]>

* David Lucido <[email protected]>

* Hannu Toivonen <[email protected]>

* Christoph A. Specjalski <[email protected]>

* Jack Kuan <[email protected]>

* Peter J. Farley III <[email protected]>

* Nethanel Elzas <[email protected]>

* Thomas Birnthaler <[email protected]>

* Mick Donna <[email protected]>

* John L Cox <[email protected]>

* Michael Mauch <[email protected]>

* Wenshio Gan <[email protected]>

* Christian Haul <[email protected]>

* Steven W. Orr <[email protected]>

* John Maybury <[email protected]>

* Nelson H. F. Beebe <[email protected]>

* Lothar Stache <[email protected]>

* Matthijs Kadijk <[email protected]>

* Urs Meier <[email protected]>

* Igor Mendelev <[email protected]>

* Kenny McCormack <[email protected]>

* Jules Altfas <[email protected]>

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