Copyright (C) 2016-2021 Luca Saiu
Written by Luca Saiu

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I wish to thank the people who showed an interest in this project and
contributed with feedback or encouragement.  Some are personal friends, others I
have only met online; even those whom I only know by an IRC nickname have been
important.

* José Marchesi, the first serious user of Jitter in an external software, has
  always provided suggestions and useful, constructive feedback.
  José also helped me to begin the SPARC port, teaching me about the
  architecture as I was writing the first code in machine/sparc with him at my
  side.

* Bruno Haible, always the portability expert, sent countless bug reports, fixes
  and patches in his usual friendly, helpful and precise style.  Bruno
  intervened in an IRC conversation and discussed with me for a long time about
  hashing and garbage collection.  I appreciate how he made a strong effort to
  prevent me from making a wrong choice and proactively criticised my design to
  warn me of possible problems, adopting my own obsession with optimisation as a
  point of view for the scope of the exchange.

* Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor reported bugs, asked many questions about Jitter and
  appreciated its complexity.  Interacting with him was particularly pleasant
  and motivating.

* Arsen Arsenović for his tireless and precise bug reporting.

* Darshit Shah reported several bugs in a very precise way, more than once
  providing fixes.

* Alfred M. Szmidt made me notice a few bugs preventing portability to BSD
  systems, and contributed to my porting effort with long friendly discussions.

* Niobos helped by testing changes on her configuration.

* xelxebar helped me to debug a problem with the shebang lines in scripts, testing
  in unusual configurations.

* Dan Čermák sent a useful bug report and automatic analysis results.

* Galex reported some typos.

I wish to thank the people who maintained a package for Jitter; I know of
Darshit Shah, but there are others as well who would deserve a mention here.


As of 2021 my employer p≡p Foundation (https://pep.foundation ) allows me to
spend some paid time working on free software projects including Jitter; this
support is greatly appreciated.  On p≡p Foundation's time I:

* ported Jitter to Android;
* improved ARM support;
* greatly improved the Structured example: procedures, tail calls,
  documentation.
