crm114 20100106-7 / usr / share / doc / crm114 / COLOPHON.txt

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#	COLOPHON.txt - Production notes of CRM114
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# Copyright 2001-2009 William S. Yerazunis.
# This file is under GPLv3, as described in COPYING.
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The CRM114 Discriminator system was written mostly while going to and
from my day job on Boston's MBTA commuter rail trains.  The
development machine was a Sony Picturebook C1VP running Red Hat Linux
7.2 ( soon upgraded to Red Hat 7.3, then RH 7.3 on a Fujitsu P2120).
Editing was with GNU Emacs 21.2.1 , compiling was with GCC 2.96, and
debugging with GDB frontended with DDD 3.3.1 .

It took about 100 days of commuting to do the initial work, mostly in
1/2 hour stretches.  This included design, coding, testing, and
documentation.  I expect that it shows.  The upside of all this is
that the code is simple enough to understand because it's all
comprehendable in 1/2 hour stretches.  The downside is that it
probably reads in a somewhat choppy style.

If CRM114 is useful code to someone, please use it; if you find a bug
or an weirdness, send in an email and we'll create a fix or an
update.  Like the readme says, this isn't the PERL swiss army knife,
this is a razor-sharp katana that can talk.

Much of the power of CRM114 versus Perl, awk, et al is due to the
linear-time and approximate regex matching engines written by Ville
Laurikari, and all the glory for that particular section of the code
belongs to Ville, not me.

I would like to thank Darren Leigh, David Kramer, Reto Lichtensteiger,
John Bowker, Ville Laurikari, Eric Johanssen, Adolfo Santiago, Danko
Miklos, Dave Corcoran, Ben Livingood, George Burdell, P Oscar Boykin,
Corrado Cau, Ruven Gottlieb, Kurt Bigler, Barry Jaspan, Fidelis Assis,
Christian Siefkes, Shalendra Chhabra, Paolo Pazolli, and many others
for their sharp eyes and analytic skills.

I would also like to thank Richard M. Stallman and Linus Torvalds, for
leading by example.

As Napoleon said:

    "When all else fails, march toward the sound of the guns."

		-Bill Yerazunis