The authors thank the editors at Manning who worked closely with us to make this book better for introducing all kinds of people to ChucK, especially Susanna Kline, Bert Bates, and Jeff Bleiel, and the many others who worked with us on the production of the book.
We also thank the following outside reviewers for all of their helpful comments and suggestions: Edward Borasky, Brent Boylan, Matthew Dickinson, Boyan Dzhorgov, Pierre Jolivet, Hector Lee, James Matlock, Ari Pappas, Patrick Regan, Gabriel ReyGoodlatte, Alvin Scudder, Sergiy Seletskyy, Nathan Smutz, David Sumberg, Danny Vinson, Dan Warren, and Stephen Wolff. Special thanks to Doug Sparling, who did a thorough technical review of the manuscript shortly before it went into production.
As Ge mentioned in his preface, the people who went into creating, developing, and maturing ChucK are many, but we must thank particularly Ari Lazier, Philip Davidson, Dan Trueman, Scott Smallwood, Rebecca Fiebrink, Ananya Misra, Kassen Oud, and Chris Chafe.
We also thank the now generations of LOrk (Laptop Orchestra) students, teaching assistants, and composers who used ChucK with us and made it a better language. These include the members of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk), Stanford CCRMA, and the ChucK user community.