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Major Contributors to gawk

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This section names the major contributors to gawk and/or this Web page, in approximate chronological order:

• Dr. Alfred V. Aho, Dr. Peter J. Weinberger, and Dr. Brian W. Kernighan, all of Bell Laboratories, designed and implemented Unix awk, from which gawk gets the majority of its feature set.
• Paul Rubin did the initial design and implementation in 1986, and wrote the first draft (around 40 pages) of this Web page.
• Jay Fenlason finished the initial implementation.
• Diane Close revised the first draft of this Web page, bringing it to around 90 pages.
• Richard Stallman helped finish the implementation and the initial draft of this Web page. He is also the founder of the FSF and the GNU project.
• John Woods contributed parts of the code (mostly fixes) in the initial version of gawk.
• In 1988, David Trueman took over primary maintenance of gawk, making it compatible with "new" awk, and greatly improving its performance.
• Pat Rankin provided the VMS port and its documentation.
• Conrad Kwok, Scott Garfinkle, and Kent Williams did the initial ports to MS-DOS with various versions of MSC.
• Hal Peterson provided help in porting gawk to Cray systems.
• Kai Uwe Rommel provided the initial port to OS/2 and its documentation.
• Michal Jaegermann provided the port to Atari systems and its documentation. He continues to provide portability checking with DEC Alpha systems, and has done a lot of work to make sure gawk works on non-32-bit systems.
• Fred Fish provided the port to Amiga systems and its documentation.
• Scott Deifik currently maintains the MS-DOS port.
• Juan Grigera maintains the port to Win32 systems.
• Dr. Darrel Hankerson acts as coordinator for the various ports to different PC platforms and creates binary distributions for various PC operating systems. He is also instrumental in keeping the documentation up to date for the various PC platforms.
• Christos Zoulas provided the extension built-in function for dynamically adding new modules.
• Jürgen Kahrs contributed the initial version of the TCP/IP networking code and documentation, and motivated the inclusion of the |& operator.
• Stephen Davies provided the port to Tandem systems and its documentation.
• Martin Brown provided the port to BeOS and its documentation.
• Arno Peters did the initial work to convert gawk to use GNU Automake and gettext.
• Alan J. Broder provided the initial version of the asort function as well as the code for the new optional third argument to the match function.
• Andreas Buening updated the gawk port for OS/2.

  Isamu Hasegawa, of IBM in Japan, contributed support for multibyte characters.

• Arnold Robbins has been working on gawk since 1988, at first helping David Trueman, and as the primary maintainer since around 1994.