Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge, gratefully, the contributions of the members of ECMA TC39/TG3, who contributed significantly toward the development of the standard and helped with this book. Special thanks to Michal Cierniak, Senior Researcher, Intel Corporation; Dr. Nigel Perry, University of Canterbury; Arch D. Robison, Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation; and Emmanuel Stapf, Head of Compiler Technology Division, Eiffel Software; both for lending their time and expertise to the standard and for contributing significantly to this book.

It is important to acknowledge the enormous effort also put into the standard by other members of the committee generally, and in particular:

• Carol Thompson, Software Architect, and Eric Eidt, of Hewlett-Packard Corporation

• Jim Hogg of Microsoft Corporation, for significant authoring and editing on Partitions I and II of the standard

• Basim Kadhim of Fujitsu, Erik Eidt of Hewlett-Packard Corporation, and Emmanuel Stapf for significant contributions in refining the CLS

• Professor Christine Mingins and Dr. Damien Watkins of Monash University, Melbourne Australia, for their contributions to the glossary

• Toshiaki Kurokawa, CSK Fellow, for facilitating work in the ISO fast track process

• Joel Marcy of Intel Corporation (also TC39 Chair and TG3 Convener) and Sam Ruby of IBM for all their work in convening the standards committee

• For bringing their expertise in the process of standardization to this effort, Jan van den Beld, Secretary General of ECMA, Rex Jaeschke, Tom Plum of Plum Hall, and Mike Deese

We would also like to thank Brad Abrams, Lead Program Manager; Lisa Supinski, Documentation Manager; and Sheridan Harrison all of the Common Language Runtime, Microsoft Corporation for working with us, and for the tremendous amount of effort that went into producing the class library part of the standard.

And finally, we would like to thank Don Box, Jeff Richter, and John Montgomery for encouraging us and making it possible to write this book, and the Common Language Runtime team for making the technology real in the first place.