Last check on 2001/12/9

Pliant language has been designed and created by Hubert Tonneau over 15 years. The current code is including many extra contributions from: Pliant core team Currently active contributors Other contributors Many thanks to all of them. Anyway, there are still a few Highly required extra contributors in the project.

The Pliant core team is currently:

Patrice Ossona de Mendez	Polishing Pliant core compiler engine
Hubert Tonneau	Now mainly updating the documentation Polishing Pliant low level libraries Polishing Pliant built in applications Polishing FullPliant operating system
Marcus Vinicius Santos	Pliant documentation coordinator

Pliant currently active contributors:

Loic Dumas	Wrote documentation about the .page format Main new features tester Teaching Pliant to some Heliogroup users Deploying FullPliant computers at Heliogroup
Michel de Mendez	Writing some documentation in french Main Win32 tester (also lacks programming capabilities)

Pliant other contributors:

Thomas Bakketun	Complete serial port support (R58). Corrected site assignment in the HTTP server (R48). Provided a patch solving incorrect hanling of 'append' flag under Win32 for 'Stream' data type (R34). Provided the 'flagset' data type initial implementation (R33).
Johan Boulé	Improvements in the Win32 port (R56).
Oleg Cherevko	Ported to FreeBSD, and suggested a better organization for the 'os_' functions (R37).
Antonio Eduardo Costa Pereira	Pointed out weak implementation for division and casting to string functions on large integers(R40)
John Eikenberry	Helped answering questions in the Pliant forum Reviewed and improved the overall Pliant project documentation (R34) 'CChar' data type (R34) External variables mapping (R34) Deployed a site providing various Pliant samples at http://zhar.net/projects/pliant/
Stephanie Eikenberry	Reviewed and improved the overall Pliant project documentation (R34)
Jerry Fass	I miss this guy because I was very happy to work with somebody that had no programming capabilities at all, and to discover all he could provide anyway. Wrote the page that list various Web sites pointing to Pliant Was promoting Pliant on various Web sites Slowly corrected bad english in various Pliant documentation pages
Bert Frederiks	Tested the Pliant static version on a tiny computer, and reported various bugs (R11)
Yvan Godin	Many usefull preposals for the HTTP server.
Ingo Hohmann	Feedback about the HTTP server configuration design (R49) Usefull proposals (such as building a static version of the documentation) Reported the unsigned arithmetic bug (R21)
Gordon Matzigkeit	Corrects my most frequent incorrect english words. Created an advanced loader prototype. Provided the first implementation of 'enumerated' data type. Will package Pliant for Debian (may be ?).
William Merriam	Corrected some parts of the documentation (R38).
David Morneau	Corrected the documentation (R12) Various small improvements proposals
Daniel Neri	Ported to OpenBSD (R41).
Fran篩s-Ren頒ideau	Usefull informations on how to use various free ressouces on the Internet. Detailed report of the ASPIC 2000.
Andr顳 Saudemont	Suggestions about better unix rights (R4) First reader of the documentation Tested the installation process (R4)
Helene Tonneau	Drew the images for the Pliant web site (R34)
Knut Virow	Pointed out incorrect constants overflow checking in the parser (R32)

Should your or one of your contributions be missing in this list, please feel free to drop me a mail. The least a free project can do is properly list it's contributors.

Pliant highly required extra contributors:

Win32 port	Somebody with programming capabilities to deaply test (and add the very fiew missing parts in) the Win32 port. See the status page for extra details.
Code generator	Somebody with advanced programming capabilities interested in studying and porting to Pliant various well known code optimizing algorithms in order to polish the current code generator. (extra details)
Documentation	Many minors contributions through correcting various documentation pages (English is not my native language).
Journal	Some articles step by step specifying how to do something concret with Pliant (please get in touch with me) so that your article can come part of the Pliant journal.

Another area where external contributions are expected is interfacing (wrappers) to external well known softwares (such as MySQL, KDE Qt, Gnome GTK, Corba, etc). All these are currenly outside Pliant core team goals, but worth sharing with other Pliant users anyway.