$Id: CREDITS,v 1.10 2001/08/26 12:40:43 hzhu Exp $

		            Credits for MatPy


- MatPy could not have existed without Python.  The Numeric package (by
  many) and Gnuplot package (by Michael Haggerty) are essential for this
  project to be feasible.  The cephes module from the multipack package
  (by Travis Oliphant) provides some crucial contents.  Many other Open
  Source tools facilitated and accelerated the development greatly.

- Much of the interface was inspired by MatLab.  Octave has been crucial to
  my continued use of this interface when unable to access MatLab.

- SourceForge provides a great home for MatPy, as it has for thousands of
  other open source projects.

- I floated the idea of a Python-Octave gateway in comp.lang.python and was
  suggested instead to implement a wrapper around NumPy (Konrad Hinsen) or
  modify the Python interpreter (George White).  Thus started the project.

- Henning Schroeder provided the interactive console matpy.

- Jannie Hofmeyr traced all the problems for Windows install and provided
  detailed information to make it work.  Thanks to Gordon McMillan for
  clarifying the issue of relative import.

- Michael Hudson and Thomas Wouters wrote a patch for augmented assignment
  operators.  Gregory Lielens wrote a patch to implement additional
  operators to distinguish elementwise and matrixwise operations.

- David M. Cooke provided working example to use getattr to remove () from
  methods T, H, I, C, etc.

- The following individuals have contributed codes or documentations
  specifically to MatPy:

    Henning Schroeder <ich@henning-schroeder.de>    matpy
    Tim Hochberg <tim.hochberg@ieee.org>            formats.compactAxes
    Janko Hauser <jhauser@ifm.uni-kiel.de>          formats.DelAxes
    Jannie Hofmeyr <jhsh@maties.sun.ac.za>          Windows install
    Gregory Lielens <gregory.lielens@fft.be>        matop.patch
    David M. Cooke <cookedm@physics.mcmaster.ca>    Matrix.__getattr__

- Various bits of information from the following individuals (ideas,
  comments, suggestions, questions, background info, examples, etc) have
  found their way into MatPy:

    Jeff Epler <jepler.lnk@lnk.ispi.net>
    Tim Peters <tim_one@email.msn.com>
    Konrad Hinsen <hinsen@cnrs-orleans.fr>
    George White <gwhite@bodnext.bio.dfo.ca>)
	Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
    Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk>
    Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> 
    S. Hoon Yoon <cpu@bigfoot.com>
    Phil Austin <phil@geog.ubc.ca>
	Gordon McMillan <gmcm@hypernet.com>
	Travis Oliphant <Oliphant.Travis@altavista.net>
    Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
    Richard Mortier <rmm1002@cam.ac.uk>
	Jim Boyle <boyle5@llnl.gov>
	Conrad Cone <ccone@bellatlantic.net>


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Note: I sometimes use http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-list/ to trace
back some of the ideas.  If you find any omissions or errors please let me
know.  Especially when yourself is omitted, don't feel shy to mention it -
It will save me time to try to find out.  Thanks.