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>
doc: document experimental features better.

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chapters. Reference chapters follow, which describe specific aspects
of Bison in detail.
Bison was written primarily by Robert Corbett; Richard Stallman made it
Yacc-compatible. Wilfred Hansen of Carnegie Mellon University added
multi-character string literals and other features.
Bison was written originally by Robert Corbett. Richard Stallman made
it Yacc-compatible. Wilfred Hansen of Carnegie Mellon University
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.
@@ -10875,5 +10879,5 @@ grammatically indivisible. The piece of text it represents is a token.
@c LocalWords: superclasses boolean getErrorVerbose setErrorVerbose deftypecv
@c LocalWords: getDebugStream setDebugStream getDebugLevel setDebugLevel url
@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