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.tl ''by''
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.tl ''\fIJohn\ K.\ Foderaro\fP''
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.tl '''A document in'
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A chorus of students, 
under the direction of
Richard Fateman, have contributed to
building 
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from a mere melody into a full
symphony .
The major contributors to the inital system were
Mike Curry,  John Breedlove and Jeff Levinsky.
Bill Rowan added the garbage collector and array package.
Keith Sklower has contributed the most to 
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adding the 
bignum package and rewriting most of code to increase
its efficiency and clarity.
Tom London wrote the  compiler for F\s-2RANZ\s0.
John Foderaro added a function or two, did a lot of 
kibitzing, and wrote this modest manual.
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\(co 1979 by the Regents of the University of California.
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All rights reserved.
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Work reported herein was supported in part by 
the U. S. Department
of Energy, Contract DE-AT03-76SF00034, Project Agreement
DE-AS03-79ER10358, and the National Science
Foundation under Grant No.  MCS 7807291
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