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