Viper, formerly known as VIP-19, was written by Michael Kifer. Viper is based on the original VIP package by Masahiko Sato and on its enhancement, VIP 4.4, by Aamod Sane. This manual is an adaptation of the manual for VIP 4.4, which, in turn, was based on Sato’s manual for VIP 3.5.
Many contributors on the Net pointed out bugs and suggested a number of useful features. Scott Bronson and Samuel Padgett contributed patches that were incorporated in this code. Here is a hopefully complete list of contributors:
[email protected] (Aaron Lehmann), [email protected] (Al Gelders), [email protected] (Paul-Bernard Amade), [email protected] (Andy Scott), [email protected] (Scott Bronson), [email protected] (Tom Cook), [email protected] (Soren Dayton), [email protected], [email protected] (David Mazieres), [email protected] (Carsten Dominik), [email protected] (Dan Wallach), [email protected] (Dwight Shih), [email protected] (David X Callaway), [email protected] (Brian Edmonds), [email protected] (Golubev I.N.), [email protected] (Guhan Viswanathan), [email protected] (George V. Reilly), [email protected] (Takao Hatazaki), [email protected] (Hans-Peter Zehrfeld), [email protected] (Irie Tetsuya), [email protected] (Jack Repenning), [email protected] (D.J. Miller II), [email protected] (Jean-Jacques Moreau), [email protected] (John Launchbury), [email protected] (John O'Brien), [email protected] (John Wiegley), [email protected] (James Kanze), [email protected] (Kin Cho), [email protected] (Karl Heuer), [email protected] (Mary Lindstrom), [email protected] (Juanma Barranquero), [email protected] (Lennart Borgman), [email protected] (Mikio Nakajima), [email protected] (Mark Bordas), [email protected] (Jim Meyering), [email protected] (Martin Buchholz), [email protected] (Malcolm Butler), [email protected] (Marcelino Veiga Tuimil), [email protected] (Paul Keusemann), [email protected] (Hanspeter Pfister), [email protected] (Phil Brooks), [email protected] (Lutz Pogrell), [email protected] (Pradyut Shah), [email protected] (Roderick Schertler), [email protected], [email protected] (Aaron Sawdey), [email protected] (Simon Blanchard), [email protected] (Samuel Padgett), [email protected] (Stephen Farrell), [email protected] (Kim F. Storm), [email protected] (Sudish Joseph), [email protected] (Andreas Schwab) [email protected] (Morten Welinder), [email protected] (Han The Thanh), [email protected], [email protected] (Milan Vrenjak), [email protected] (Wendell Hicken), [email protected] (Jason Zapman II),