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The GNU Pascal development team

Jukka Virtanen
invented GNU Pascal in March 1988, implemented the ISO-7185 and most of the ISO-10206 standard, maintains the GNU Pascal mailing list, etc.
Peter Gerwinski
added Borland-Pascal-related and other extensions to GNU Pascal in summer 1995, ported GPC to EMX, maintains this home page, does some other administrative stuff, etc.
Jan-Jaap van der Heijden
ported GPC to DJGPP and to Microsoft Windows 95/NT, added ELF support in spring 1996, solved a lot of configuration and compatibility problems, maintains the inofficial FAQ, etc.
Alexey Volokhov
improved the performance of GPC's Module (Unit) support in June 1997.
Bill Currie
implemented more Borland extensions into GPC in July 1997.
Frank Heckenbach
maintains the run time system since August 1997, maintains the To-Do list, etc.
Matthias Klose
integrated GPC into Debian and EGCS in May 1998, improved the installation process, etc.
Nick Burrett
fixed some bugs and cleaned up GPC in May 1998, etc.

The development of GNU Pascal profits a lot from independent contributions:

Berend de Boeur
wrote a lot of useful documentation about Extended Pascal in 1995.
Phil Nelson
created a bug report system for GNU Pascal in October 1996.
Markus Gerwinski
created the drawing showing Gnu with Blaise Pascal (JPEG, 3 kB) (JPEG, 59 kB) (PNG, 10 kB) and helped to design this home page in October 1996.
Robert Höhne
wrote the RHIDE, an integrated development environment for GNU compilers running under DOS (DJGPP), and added support for GNU Pascal in autumn 1996.
Sven Hilscher
wrote BGI2GRX, the Borland compatible "Graph" Unit for the DJGPP (DOS) version of GNU Pascal in December 1996.
Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief and The Great Elephant)
is the author of the BPcompat package from version 1.0 on in May 1997.
Dario Anzani (Predator Zeta)
contributed documentation about the use of assembler in GNU Pascal in May 1997.
Lluis de Yzaguirre i Maura
has set up a HTML version of the GNU Pascal mailing list archives in September 1997.
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We thank everybody who supports us by reporting bugs, contributing knowledge and good ideas, donating development tools, and giving us the opportunity to test GPC on a large variety of systems. We are particularly indepted (in alphabetical order, individuals first) to Jim Brander, Nils Bokermann, Patrice Bouchand, Nick Burrett, Dr. E. Buxbaum, Larry Carter, Miklos Cserzo, Carl Eric Codere, Tim Currie, Stefan A. Deutscher, Anja Drewitz, Thomas Dunbar, Andreas Eckleder, Sven Engelhardt, David Fiddes, Kevin A. Foss, Jakob Heinemann, Achim Kalwa, Niels Kristian Bech Jensen, Krzysztof Kwapien, Kennith Linder, Stephen Lindholm, Orlando Llanes, Maurice Lombardi, Jesper Lund, Michael Meeks, Axel Mellinger, John Miller, Scott A. Moore, Pierre Phaneuf, Ronald Perrella, Phil Robertson, Pat Sharp, Arcadio Alivio Sincero, Tomas Srb, Bernhard Tschirren, Peter Weber, Christian Wendt, Gareth Wilson, the BIP at the University of Birmingham, UK, the Institut für Festkörperforschung (IFF) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, and everybody we might have forgotten to mention here. Thanks to all of you!



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