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<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/><title>1 Acknowledgments</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="scribble.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="manual-style.css" title="default"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="manual-racket.css" title="default"/><script type="text/javascript" src="scribble-common.js"></script><!--[if IE 6]><style type="text/css">.SIEHidden { overflow: hidden; }</style><![endif]--></head><body id="scribble-racket-lang-org"><div class="tocset"><div class="tocview"><div class="tocviewlist tocviewlisttopspace"><div class="tocviewtitle"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td style="width: 1em;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" title="Expand/Collapse" class="tocviewtoggle" onclick="TocviewToggle(this,"tocview_0");">▼</a></td><td></td><td><a href="index.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Pollen:<span class="mywbr"> </span> the book is a program</a></td></tr></table></div><div class="tocviewsublistonly" style="display: block;" id="tocview_0"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td align="right">1 </td><td><a href="Acknowledgments.html" class="tocviewselflink" data-pltdoc="x">Acknowledgments</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">2 </td><td><a href="Installation.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Installation</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">3 </td><td><a href="Quick_start.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Quick start</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">4 </td><td><a href="The_story_of_Pollen.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">The story of Pollen</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">5 </td><td><a href="Using_raco_pollen.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Using <span class="stt">raco pollen</span></a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">6 </td><td><a href="File_formats.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">File formats</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">7 </td><td><a href="reader.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">◊ command overview</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">8 </td><td><a href="Module_reference.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Module reference</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right">9 </td><td><a href="License___source_code.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">License & source code</a></td></tr><tr><td align="right"></td><td><a href="doc-index.html" class="tocviewlink" data-pltdoc="x">Index</a></td></tr></table></div></div></div></div><div class="maincolumn"><div class="main"><div class="versionbox"><span class="version">6.0.1.6</span></div><div class="navsettop"><span class="navleft"> </span><span class="navright"> <a href="index.html" title="backward to "Pollen: the book is a program"" data-pltdoc="x">← prev</a> <a href="index.html" title="up to "Pollen: the book is a program"" data-pltdoc="x">up</a> <a href="Installation.html" title="forward to "2 Installation"" data-pltdoc="x">next →</a></span> </div><h3>1<tt> </tt><a name="(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 <a href="https://www.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/">Matthew Flatt</a>, <a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay/home/">Jay McCarthy</a>, and <a href="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 done. They create an incentive to undertake jobs you wouldn’t have attempted before. Racket encouraged me to be
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