This is Debian/GNU Linux's prepackaged version of bigloo.
Bigloo was written by Manuel Serrano <Manuel.Serrano@inria.fr>.

He wrote:
I thank all the people who helped me while writing Bigloo, specialy
Hans J. Boehm (boehm@parc.xerox.com) who wrote the garbage collector,
Jean-Marie Geffroy (Jean-Marie.Geffroy@inria.fr) who found many bugs
and which written `Match', Christan Queinnec
(Christian.Queinnec@inria.fr), Dominique Boucher
(boucherd@IRO.UMontreal.CA) who wrote the Lalr system, Stephen J Bevan
(bevan@computer-science.manchester.ac.uk), Joris Heirbaut
(pheirba@tinf3.vub.ac.be) who ported Bigloo under Solaris, Drew
Whitehouse (Drew.Whitehouse@anu.edu.au) who ported Bigloo under Iris
Indigo, Luc Moreau (moreau@montefiore.ulg.ac.be), Pascal Petit
(petit@litp.ibp.fr), Joel Masset (jmasset@dmi.ens.fr) and Thierry
Saura (Thierry.Saura@inria.fr), Laurent Bloch (bloch@pasteur.fr),
Christopher Oliver (oliver@fritz.co.traverse.com) who pointed me bugs
out, Thomas Neumann (tom@smart.bo.open.de) who ported Bigloo under
NeXT, Olaf Burkart (burkart@zeus.informatik.rwth-aachen.de) for his
comments on Bigloo, John Gerard Malecki (john@vlibs.com) who point me
out bugs and suggested many improvements, David Gurr
(gurr@snap.med.ge.com) who points me out bugs, Rodrigo Vanegas
(rv@cs.brown.edu) who suggested some extensions, Kenneth Dwayne Ray
(xray@owlnet.rice.edu) for all its suggestions, Michael Sperber
(sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) and Vincent Kieffer
(kieffer@montefiore.ulg.ac.be) for the AIX port, Dave Love
(d.love@dl.ac.uk) which fix many bugs, Jacques Garrigue
(is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp) which helped me, Marcel Turcotte
(turcotte@IRO.UMontreal.CA), Alexandre Frey
(frey@lix.polytechnique.fr), and Raj Manandhar
(Raj.Manandhar@msfc.nasa.gov) which points me bugs or documentation
problems.


This package was put together by Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>,
from sources obtained from:
ftp://kaolin.unice.fr/pub/Bigloo/bigloo1.9c.tar.gz


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