Acknowledgments
A project such as Merlin would not be possible except for the help and
collaboration of many different people. Most of the ideas, for example,
were developed by the people listed below and all I had to do was bring
them together in a (hopefully) harmonious whole.
So I would like to thank
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God
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to whose glory this work is dedicated, for all sub-creations must be
just pale tributes to His great creation
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my parents
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who ( among so many things ) are financing this project
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the Self Group
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for a great language and many good ideas
Bay-Wei Chang
Craig Chambers
David Ungar
Elgin Lee
John Maloney
Lars Bak
Mario Wolczko
Ole Agesen
Ole Lehrmann Madsen
Randall B. Smith
Urs Hoelzle
Laboratorio de Sistemas Integraveis at the University of Sao Paulo
for being Merlin's home from 1989 to 1992 and for the continued support
with computer and other resources ( the machine where these pages reside,
for example )
Sergio Takeo Kofuji
Joao Antonio Zuffo
Marcelo Zuffo
Xerox/ParcPlace Smalltalk group
for having started it all
Alan Kay
Adele Goldberg
Dan Ingalls
Sony Labs
Apertos project, for ideas that helped move Merlin out of the "microkernel
rut"
Yasuhiko Yokote
Mario Tokoro
OOPS Group
of the University of Texas, for his ideas on garbage collection and
persistent stores
Paul Wilson
Tunes Project
( an Object Oriented OS very much like Merlin ) for the interesting
discussions and great ideas
Francois "Rene" Rideau
Softec/Inova
Marcos Alexandre Vieira
Roberto Costa Simões
Andrea Terra
Hélio Nunes
Ruy Pinto Cesar Neto
Romualdo Monteiro de Barros
email "pen pals"
Kyle Hayes
Daniel Vainsencher
Rainer Blome
Marcio Marchini
Anthony Towns
Thierry Goubier
others, like Wolfgang Keil S bitterli and Harrison R. Ulrich
other friends
Fabio Cavalcante da Cunha
Osvaldo Vieira Cristo