## Acknowledgements ¶

Many people have further contributed to MDK by reporting problems, suggesting various improvements, or submitting actual code. Here is a list of these people. Please, help me keep it complete and exempt of errors.

- Philip Ellis King provided MIXAL test programs pinpointing bugs in the first MDK release, and useful discussions as well. Philip has also contributed with the Emacs port of `mixvm` and influenced the `gmixvm` GUI design with insightful comments and prototypes.
- Aleix Conchillo has been following MDK’s development for many years, indefatigably chasing and fixing bugs, and suggesting many improvements. He’s also the original author of the Fink and Macports ports.
- Pieter E J Pareit is the author of the Emacs MIXAL mode, and has also contributed many bug fixes.
- Michael Scholz is the author of the German translation of MDK’s user interface.
- Sergey Poznyakoff provided patches to mixlib/mix_scanner.l improving MIXAL compliance.
- Sergey Litvin implemented the instructions `SLB`, `SRB`, `JAE`, `JAO`, `JXE`, and `JXO` from volume 2 of TAOCP.
- Francesc Xavier Noria kindly and thoroughly reviewed the MDK documentation, providing insightful advice.
- Eric S. Raymond contributed the documentation file `MIX.DOC` and the samples `elevator.mixal` and `mistery.mixal` from his MIXAL package.
- Nelson H. F. Beebe has tested MDK in a lot of Unix platforms, suggesting portability enhancements to the source code.
- Ryan Schmidt, Agustin Navarro, Ying-Chieh Liao, Adrian Bunk, Baruch Even, and Ronald Cole ported MDK to different platforms, and created and/or maintain packages for it.
- Jason Uhlenkott, Andrew Hood, Radu Butnaru, Ruslan Batdalov, WeiZheng, Sascha Wilde, Michael Vernov and Xiaofeng Zhao reported bugs and suggested fixes to them.
- Joshua Davies, Eli Bendersky, Milan Bella and Jens Seidel reported bugs on the documentation.
- Christoph von Nathusius, Stephen Ramsay and Johan Swanljung tested MDK on different platforms, and helped fixing the configuration process in them.
- Richard Stallman suggested various improvements to the documentation and has always kept an eye on each MDK release.
- MDK was inspired by Darius Bacon’s MIXAL program.