Contributors to GNU C++ library

Aside from Michael Tiemann, who worked out the front end for GNU C++, and Richard Stallman, who worked out the back end, the following people (not including those who have made their contributions to GNU CC) should not go unmentioned.

• Doug Lea contributed most otherwise unattributed classes.
• Per Bothner contributed the iostream I/O classes.
• Dirk Grunwald contributed the Random number generation classes, and PairingHeaps.
• Kurt Baudendistel contributed Fixed precision reals.
• Doug Schmidt contributed ordered hash tables, a perfect hash function generator, and several other utilities.
• Marc Shapiro contributed the ideas and preliminary code for Plexes.
• Eric Newton contributed the curses window classes.
• Some of the I/O code is derived from BSD 4.4, and was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
• The code for converting accurately between floating point numbers and their string representations was written by David M. Gay of AT&T.