doc: give credit to more of Bison's developers.

* doc/bison.texinfo (Introduction): Don't imply that only Robert
Corbett, Richard Stallman, and Wilfred Hansen have contributed to
Bison.  However, I don't have time to write a full history, so
just point readers to THANKS and ChangeLog.
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2011-02-06 Joel E. Denny <joeldenny@joeldenny.org>
doc: give credit to more of Bison's developers.
* doc/bison.texinfo (Introduction): Don't imply that only Robert
Corbett, Richard Stallman, and Wilfred Hansen have contributed to
Bison. However, I don't have time to write a full history, so
just point readers to THANKS and ChangeLog.
2011-02-06 Joel E. Denny <joeldenny@joeldenny.org> 2011-02-06 Joel E. Denny <joeldenny@joeldenny.org>
doc: document experimental features better. doc: document experimental features better.

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@@ -373,9 +373,13 @@ last. If you don't know Bison or Yacc, start by reading these
chapters. Reference chapters follow, which describe specific aspects chapters. Reference chapters follow, which describe specific aspects
of Bison in detail. of Bison in detail.
Bison was written primarily by Robert Corbett; Richard Stallman made it Bison was written originally by Robert Corbett. Richard Stallman made
Yacc-compatible. Wilfred Hansen of Carnegie Mellon University added it Yacc-compatible. Wilfred Hansen of Carnegie Mellon University
multi-character string literals and other features. added multi-character string literals and other features. Since then,
Bison has grown more robust and evolved many other new features thanks
to the hard work of a long list of volunteers. For details, see the
@file{THANKS} and @file{ChangeLog} files included in the Bison
distribution.
This edition corresponds to version @value{VERSION} of Bison. This edition corresponds to version @value{VERSION} of Bison.
@@ -11525,7 +11529,7 @@ grammatically indivisible. The piece of text it represents is a token.
@c LocalWords: superclasses boolean getErrorVerbose setErrorVerbose deftypecv @c LocalWords: superclasses boolean getErrorVerbose setErrorVerbose deftypecv
@c LocalWords: getDebugStream setDebugStream getDebugLevel setDebugLevel url @c LocalWords: getDebugStream setDebugStream getDebugLevel setDebugLevel url
@c LocalWords: bisonVersion deftypecvx bisonSkeleton getStartPos getEndPos @c LocalWords: bisonVersion deftypecvx bisonSkeleton getStartPos getEndPos
@c LocalWords: getLVal defvar deftypefn deftypefnx gotos msgfmt @c LocalWords: getLVal defvar deftypefn deftypefnx gotos msgfmt Corbett
@c LocalWords: subdirectory Solaris nonassociativity @c LocalWords: subdirectory Solaris nonassociativity
@c Local Variables: @c Local Variables: