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This file is part of Logtalk <http://logtalk.org/>  
Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Paulo Moura <pmoura@logtalk.org>

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AUTHORS
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* Paulo Moura (language designer, developer, and maintainer)


CONTRIBUTORS
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* Andreas Becker (PDT support for Logtalk, bug reports)
* Artur Miguel Dias (testing, lambda expression examples)
* Clara Dimene (GeSHi syntax highlighter)
* Daniel L. Dudley (made the ISO 8601 library object available)
* Davide Ancona (coinduction examples)
* Eva Stöwe (PDT support for Logtalk)
* Feliks Kluzniak (coinduction examples and bug reports)
* François Fages (meta-predicate safety bug reports)
* Günter Kniesel (PDT support for Logtalk; feedback on Logtalk OOP features)
* Gopal Gupta (coinduction examples)
* Ivan Bratko (search methods in the state-space searching example)
* Joerg Schuster (bug reports)
* John Fletcher (made XML parser available)
* Joost Geurts (bug reports)
* Markus Triska (help in porting CLP(FD) examples)
* Mats Carlsson (bug reports)
* Michael Covington (DCGs tokenizer example)
* Michael Igler (testing, bug reports)
* Michael Sheets (text editor support)
* Neda Saeedloei (coinduction examples)
* Neng-Fa Zhou (bug reports)
* Nicolas Pelletier (bug reports, text editor support)
* Parker Jones (testing, unit tests, bug reports)
* Paul Crocker (testing, multi-threading and meta-predicates examples, bug reports)
* Paul Fodor (library enhancements)
* Paula Marisa Sampaio (state-space searching examples)
* Paulo Nunes (multi-threading testing)
* rbt (bug reports)
* Rémy Haemmerlé (meta-predicate safety bug reports)
* Richard O'Keefe (heaps and ordered sets library code)
* Robert Sasak (PDDL 3.0 parser contribution)
* Robert Shiplett (bug reports)
* Rui Marques (bug reports)
* Sergio Castro (testing, suggestions, and bug reports)
* Timon Van Overveldt (multi-threading optimization and bug reports)
* Theofrastos Mantadelis ("flags" contribution, ProbLog integration support, benchmark tests)
* Ulrich Neumerkel (lambda expression examples and bug reports)
* Victor Lagerkvist (testing, library enhancements, made Verdi Neruda available)
* Victor Noel (bug reports)
* Vítor Santos Costa (red-black tree library)

A special thanks to all the Prolog implementers who fixed bugs and
implemented enhancements that greatly helped in improving Logtalk
portability and reliability.

This list may be incomplete. Logtalk contributions and feedback occur
in multiple forms, from private mail to public forums and paper reviews.
Your contributions are greatly appreciated. If your name is missing,
please accept our apologies and contact us so we can fix the omission.
Contact us also if, for some reason, you don't want your name on this
list.


RESEARCH SUPPORT
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Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), INESC TEC, Portugal


SPONSORS
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VivoMind Research, LLC - 2012-2013


OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE USED IN LOGTALK DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION
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* Several open-source Prolog compilers (development)
* MacPorts (MacOS X installer)
* InnoSetup (Windows installer)
* RPM (Linux installer)
* dpkg (Debian installer)
* Subversion (source code version control)
* Git (source code version control)
* CSSToXSLFO (PDF documentation)
* FOP (PDF documentation)
* phpBB (discussion forums)
* WordPress (blog)
