C. Credits

The following is an informal list of programs and people I would like to thank.

• Cygnus - for the great compiler (egcs.cygnus.com)
• Perl - for making my life in general a lot easier (www.perl.com)
• Lyx - as a great tool for helping me with this manual (www.lyx.org)
• perceps - As a great tool for extracting documentation from the source (friga.mer.utexas.edu/mark/perl/perceps/)
• latex2html - For making the html version of this document possible (www-dsed.llnl.gov/files/programs/unix/latex2html/)
• lynx - For manking the text version of this document possible.
• Mysql - for obvious reasons (www.tcx.se)
• Xemacs - the editor of choice
• Debian/GNU Linux - The platform I developed this on (www.debian.org)
• Chris Halverson - For helping me get it to compile under Solaris.
• Fredric Fredricson - For a long talk about automatic conversions.
• Michael Widenius - Mysql developer who has been very supportive of my efforts.
• Paul J. Lucas -For the original idea of treating the query object like a stream.
• Scott Barron - For helping me with the shared libraries.
• Jools Enticknap - For giving me the Template Queries Idea.
• M. S. Sriram - For a detailed dission of how the Template Queries should be implemented, the suggestion to throw exceptions on bad queries, and the idea of having a back-end independent query object (ie SQLQuery).
• Sinisa Milivojevic - For becoming the new offical maintainer.
• D. Hawkins and E. Loic for their autoconf + automake contribution.