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[section Acknowledgments]

This section aims to recognize the contributions of /all/ the different people that participated directly or indirectly to the design and development of this library.

Sincere thanks to my parents for their support with my education and my studies in computer science.

Many thanks to Bertrand Meyer for his pioneering and thorough work on Contract Programming in __Meyer97__.

Many thanks to Thorsten Ottosen for his work with __N1962__ (and previous revisions) and for clarifying the __N1962__ requirements directly with the library authors when needed.

Many thanks to Andrzej Krzemienski for reviewing earlier versions of this library providing valuable insights, for exchanging ideas on implementing assertion requirements, and for suggesting to support named parameters.

Many thanks to Vicente J. Botet Escriba for reviewing earlier versions of this library providing valuable insights and for suggesting to use `contract::copy`.

Thanks to Steven Watanabe for providing valuable insights on C++ and for hinting to use template meta-programming introspection to detect if a base class has a given member function (technique which turned out to be essential to fully automate subcontracting).

Thanks to Dave Abrahams for providing valuable comments on the library syntax and especially on the syntax to support named parameters.

Thanks to David Maley for having shared source code form his inspiring work in __Maley99__ on emulating Contract Programming in C++.

Finally, many thanks to the entire __Boost__ community and [@http://lists.boost.org mailing list] for providing valuable comments about this library and great insights on the C++ programming language.

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