* Added a dedications file.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

@@ -6,9 +6,13 @@ much harder.  I'm very thankful.
 
    Aziz,,,
 
+
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 VERSION 0.0.2:
 
+- Everybody who took the time to email me when Ikarus was released.
+  Thanks for the encouragements.
+
 - Eric Hanchrow (offby1) reported the first public bug on bignum
   division error
 
@@ -16,7 +20,8 @@ VERSION 0.0.2:
   FreeBSD, increasing the number of supported platforms from 3 to 5.
   The Solaris port is still unfinished though.
 
-- Tom Gordon reported installation problems on 64-bit systems.
+- Tom Gordon reported installation problems on 64-bit systems which
+  resulted in improving the error report of the configure script.
 
 - Jens Axel Søgaard(and his brother) provided solutions for
   compiling Ikarus on 64-bit machines.
@@ -29,10 +34,11 @@ VERSION 0.0.2:
   making the command-line procedure consistent for scripts and
   interactive sessions, installing the boot file in a proper
   location (along with some help in using automake and autoconf),
-  and filed bug reports (on expt, modulo, error, get-line,
+  filed bug reports (on expt, modulo, error, get-line,
   number->string, truncate, fltruncate, flabs, substring,
-  define-record-type, put-u8, the expander, and the
-  compiler).
+  define-record-type, put-u8, the expander, and the compiler), and
+  helped cut startup time in half by instrumenting the ikarus
+  loader.
 
 - Phil Bewig wrote SRFI-41 (streams) in R6RS, which loads flawlessly
   in Ikarus.
@@ -45,9 +51,13 @@ VERSION 0.0.2:
   reading identifiers containing unicode escape sequences and
   corrected a minor bug with export classifications.
 
+- Kent Dybvig approved of an idea for optimizing closures that
+  resulted in cutting the bootstrap time in half.
+
 - Will Clinger indirectly reported that Ikarus does not support the
   #!r6rs comment.
 
+
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 VERSION 0.0.1:
 

DEDICATIONS

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+
+Ikarus is dedicated to the people who made Ikarus possible.
+
+To my advisor Kent Dybvig, 
+  for teaching me everything he knew about compilers, and 
+  for making Chez Scheme: an example to be followed.
+
+To my wife Ghaidaa,
+  for persevering with me during the hardships, and
+  for the thousands of hacking hours that she allowed for.
+
+To my parents,
+  for waiting, patiently, for their son in his voluntary 
+  exile.