<html><head><metahttp-equiv="content-type"content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/><title>11 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><scripttype="text/javascript"src="manual-racket.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="big-picture.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">The big picture</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">5 </td><td><ahref="first-tutorial.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">First tutorial</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">6 </td><td><ahref="second-tutorial.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Second tutorial</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">7 </td><td><ahref="raco-pollen.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Using <spanclass="stt">raco pollen</span></a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">8 </td><td><ahref="File_formats.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">File formats</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">9 </td><td><ahref="reader.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">◊ command overview</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">10 </td><td><ahref="Module_reference.html"class="tocviewlink"data-pltdoc="x">Module reference</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">11 </td><td><ahref="Acknowledgments.html"class="tocviewselflink"data-pltdoc="x">Acknowledgments</a></td></tr><tr><tdalign="right">12 </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">6.0.1.13</span></div><divclass="navsettop"><spanclass="navleft"><divclass="nosearchform"></div> </span><spanclass="navright"> <ahref="World.html"title="backward to "10.9 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 "12 License & source code""data-pltdoc="x">next →</a></span> </div><h3>11<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 McCa
