1 2In 2001, Will Estes took over as maintainer of flex. 3 4John Millaway is a co-author of the current version of flex. He has 5contributed a large number of new features, fixed a large number of 6outstanding bugs and has made significant contributions to the flex 7documentation. 8 9Aaron Stone has contributed several bug fixes to the flex codebase. 10 11Vern Paxson wrote flex with the help of many ideas and much 12inspiration from Van Jacobson. Original version by Jef Poskanzer. 13 14The fast table representation is a partial implementation of a design 15done by Van Jacobson. The implementation was done by Kevin Gong and 16Vern Paxson. 17