<html><head><metahttp-equiv="content-type"content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/><title>9 Acknowledgments</title><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="scribble.css"title="default"/><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="manual-style.css"title="default"/><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="manual-racket.css"title="default"/><scripttype="text/javascript"src="scribble-common.js"></script><!--[if IE 6]><style type="text/css">.SIEHidden { overflow: hidden; }</style><![endif]--></head><bodyid="scribble-racket-lang-org"><divclass="tocset"><divclass="tocview"><divclass="tocviewlist tocviewlisttopspace"><divclass="tocviewtitle"><tablecellspacing="0"cellpadding="0"><tr><tdstyle="width: 1em;"><ahref="javascript:void(0);"title="Expand/Collapse"class="tocviewtoggle"onclick="TocviewToggle(this,"tocview_0");">▼</a></td><td></td><td><ahref="index.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Pollen:<spanclass="mywbr"> </span> the book is a program</a></td></tr></table></div><divclass="tocviewsublistonly"style="display: block;"id="tocview_0"><tablecellspacing="0"cellpadding="0"><tr><tdalign="right">1 </td><td><ahref="Installation.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Installation</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">2 </td><td><ahref="quick-tour.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Quick tour</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">3 </td><td><ahref="Backstory.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Backstory</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">4 </td><td><ahref="The_big_picture.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">The big picture</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">5 </td><td><ahref="Using_raco_pollen.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Using <spanclass="stt">raco pollen</span></a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">6 </td><td><ahref="File_formats.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">File formats</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">7 </td><td><ahref="reader.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">◊ command overview</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">8 </td><td><ahref="Module_reference.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Module reference</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">9 </td><td><ahref="Acknowledgments.html"class="tocviewselflink"data-pltdoc="x">Acknowledgments</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">10 </td><td><ahref="License___source_code.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">License & source code</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right"></td><td><ahref="doc-index.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Index</a></td></tr></table></div></div></div></div><divclass="maincolumn"><divclass="main"><divclass="versionbox"><spanclass="version">6.0.1.6</span></div><divclass="navsettop"><spanclass="navleft"> </span><spanclass="navright"> <ahref="World.html"title="backward to "8.9 World""data-pltdoc="x">← prev</a> <ahref="index.html"title="up to "Pollen: the book is a program""data-pltdoc="x">up</a> <ahref="License___source_code.html"title="forward to "10 License & source code""data-pltdoc="x">next →</a></span> </div><h3>9<tt> </tt><aname="(part._.Acknowledgments)"></a>Acknowledgments</h3><p>One curious aspect of free software is that you can appropriate the benefits of other people’s work while making it look like your own. No such legerdemain here. Whatever effort I’ve put into Pollen is dwarfed by the epic accomplishments of the Racket development team. I thank all of them — especially <ahref="https://www.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/">Matthew Flatt</a>, <ahref="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay/home/">Jay McCarthy</a>, and <ahref="http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/">Matthias Felleisen</a>— for making this tremendous tool available, for adding several features I suggested, and for patiently answering my dumb questions over the months.</p><p>Thank you to Greg Hendershott for his Markdown parser.</p><p>The best software tools do more than get the job d
