My acknowledgments and thanks go to these fellows:
Serge Pashkov, Russia. The first and best STDLIB tester and almost co-developer. In fact the most tricky code for the crucial iterative list and math function are his. He actually learned AutoLISP in two months from my AutoLISP FAQ.
Jeremy Tammik, with whom I first talked about this project - the book and the StdLib. He wrote an fantastic but now outdated german ADS book which nobody bought, so I was warned.
Dietmar Rudolph, Essen.
Serge Volkov and Peter Petrov from Basis Software. What a wonderful Lisp system they've developed!
Vladimir Nesterovsky, Isreal. My favorite advanced fellow AutoLISP programmer with the Common Lisp touch.
All those who spent their tested code. Additional code so far is from Serge Pashkov (overall guru), Ralph Gimenez (layer lib and more), David Kozina (dict, more entmake), Michael Puckett (combinations), Robert Schweisser (getfilem), and Jon Fleming (some trigonometry). Again thanks for all the improvements and fixes to Serge Pashkov.
More fixes, suggestions or not yet used code parts were also provided by Serge Volkov (lists), Devin Currie, David Kozina, Tom Berger, Daniele Piazza (drastic setnth improvement) , Jeremy Dunn (lists and points), Vladimir Michl (cz codepages), Nobuhiro Haketa (japanese codepages), Masami Chikahiro (japanese fixes) and Robert Schweisser.
Some other testing reports, fixes and suggestions were submitted by David Kozina, Jesse Danes, Link Davis, Andreas Küstermayer, Daniel Hargreaves, Ward Lane, Vladimir Nesterovsky, Sky Sigal, Jim Cameron, Jürgen Palme, Jeremy Dunn and Raymond Barlow.
I wouldn't have had enough time for writing and testing all the code by myself, esp. all the subtle errors introduced with translating my old functions to better argument names.
Even more:
I would also thank Peter Szammer, my fellow lisp programmer in Graz. He is the typical chaotic and hyper-intelligent lisp programmer with thousands of treasures. This book is esp. for him to help him keeping his function names in proper order. He has about 2500 files with one function per file only to keep consistency and ever dreamed of some kind of automatic lisp function loading on demand. Now he's my Visual Basic master. We always dreamed of selling our two systems together but merging would cost a man-year at least.
My colleagues at x-ray: Martin "Atschi" Fekonja, Martin "Tine" Steintaler, Stefan Pichler, Erik Wüster, Mato Steinwender and Günter. I didn't had enough time for more architectural projects in the last time.
Robert Rotman, Wolfgang Reinisch, Wolfgang Dokonal: my xarch fellows. Esp. with Robert I had interesting discussions while swimming in the nearby lakes about implementation issues though he knows no lisp at all.
The Technical University of Graz. Well giving lectures as undergraduate student can only be possible in Graz, and indeed I'm not the only one here. (Studying in Austria is different :) And the xarch as completely independent server is another story of success.
Franz Raschbacher and Gernot Stangl from the AZ3, Phillip Habsburg-Lothringen (yes, he is related) as test reader and all the others.
Rusty Gesner and his various companions for their the outstanding "Maximizing AutoLisp" editions. They are in particular: Joseph Smith, Patrick Haessly, Mark Middlesbrough, Tony Tanzillo. Especially the IL library ("Inside AutoLisp") and its followers inspired me and a lot of functions derived from these.
Roger Corman for putting out a full blown Win32 Common Lisp that cheap and full sources. Bruno Haible's CLISP is also wonderful, but more "source code reading" than user friendly. Those two full source Win32 CL systems are technically outstanding.
My comp.cad.autocad fellows (esp. the names listed in the AutoLISP FAQ) and esp. Ralph Gimenez .
Beat Fehr, ADGE president and his wife Roswitha, for inviting me at the Camp ADGE's and pushing AutoLISP as other possibility besides ARX.
Andrew Stein and Bob Holt at Autodesk for their continuing interest and support.