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B.1 History
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The initial version was a shell program written by Evan Kirshenbaum
<evan@csli>.  It was very slow and contained many bugs.

   A new version was written in 'C' by Miguel Santana
<Miguel.Santana@st.com> to improve execution speed and portability.
Many new features and improvements have been added since this first
version.  Many contributions (changes, fixes, ideas) were done by a2ps
users in order to improve it.

   From the latest version from Miguel Santana (4.3), Emmanuel Briot
implemented bold faces for keywords in 'Ada', 'C' and 'C++'.

   From that version, Akim Demaille <akim@freefriends.org> generalized
the pretty-printing capabilities, implemented more languages support,
and other features.