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Contributors to GNU C++ library
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   Aside from Michael Tiemann, who worked out the front end for GNU
C++, and Richard Stallman, who worked out the back end, the following
people (not including those who have made their contributions to GNU
CC) should not go unmentioned.

   * Doug Lea contributed most otherwise unattributed classes.

   * Per Bothner contributed the iostream I/O classes.

   * Dirk Grunwald contributed the Random number generation classes,
     and PairingHeaps.

   * Kurt Baudendistel contributed Fixed precision reals.

   * Doug Schmidt contributed ordered hash tables, a perfect hash
     function generator, and several other utilities.

   * Marc Shapiro contributed the ideas and preliminary code for Plexes.

   * Eric Newton contributed the curses window classes.

   * Some of the I/O code is derived from BSD 4.4, and was developed by
     the University of California, Berkeley.

   * The code for converting accurately between floating point numbers
     and their string representations was written by David M. Gay of
     AT&T.