EtaMOO follows a long history of MUD tradition involving many people who are or have been influential to me. This is an attempt to acknowledge some of these people and their contributions, with my gratitude...
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Rémy Evard was a valued mentor and friend without whose influence I probably would never have gotten as involved with MOO as I have.
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Pavel Curtis maintained the original LambdaMOO server code for many years long ago, and was kind enough to exchange some ideas with me as I was writing LPMOO, my first re-implementation of MOO. His thorough documentation of LambdaMOO (later also by Erik Ostrom and Roger Crew) in the form of the LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual has been an invaluable technical resource without which I doubt projects such as LPMOO or EtaMOO would have seemed feasible.
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Felix Croes created DGD, the platform on which I made LPMOO. Not only is he an inspiration to me in writing excellent code, I believe he was the first person to introduce the idea of software transactional memory to me.
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Jay Carlson was a maintainer of the LambdaMOO server code some time ago and has often provided valuable insights and supportive feedback on a wide range of subjects.
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Ken Fox has been a friend, advocate, and developer extraordinaire for many years, and his contributions to the MOO community -- particularly in building and enhancing various databases -- are greatly appreciated.
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Ben Jackson wrote the original WAIF datatype patches for the LambdaMOO server upon which I based the WAIF implementation for EtaMOO.
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Kenny Root and James Deikun were effective collaborators with me in the creation of Codepoint, a fork of LambdaMOO (based on the initial work of H. Peter Anvin) to support Unicode.
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Dylan Simon provided several useful suggestions and feedback on this Haskell implementation of EtaMOO.
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Konsta Ranta provided early feedback and helpfully reported erroneous behavior during EtaMOO development.