Exploring Expect

Acknowledgments

I owe a large amount to the many people that used Expect and gave me excellent feedback. There are literally hundreds of people who made contributions. Many suggestions, although cavalierly made, developed into important aspects of Expect. Some people donated sizable chunks of code while yet others debated with me on philosophical aspects.

Thanks to Scott Paisley who initially sowed the seeds for the idea and then ended up listening to me rave on about it for several years before I took any action. Scott also wrote the dialback script that appears in Chapter 1 (p. 4).

I would also like to thank (in no particular order) John Conti, Mike Gourlay, Frank Terhaar-Yonkers, Jerry Friesen, Brian Fitzgerald, Mark Diekhans, Kevin Kenny, Rob Nagler, Terrence Brannon, Ken Manheimer, Steve Clark, Keith Eberhardt, Brian Woodson, Pete Termaat, Sandy Ressler, Hal Peterson, Mike O’Dell, Steve Legowik, Scott Hess, Mark Diekhans, David Vezie, Keith Hanlan, Rick Lyons, Jeff Okamoto, Tom Tromey, Phil Shepherd, Michael Grant, Bob Proulx, Marty Leisner, Ting Leung, Karl Lehenbauer, Przemek Klosowski, Bill Tierney, Steve Summit, Rainer Wilcke, Alon Albert, Jay Schmidgall, Corey Satten, Konrad Haedener, Tor Lillqvist, Pasi Kaara, Kartik Subbarao, Steve Ray, Karl Vogel, Seth Perlman, Dave Mielke, Brian Bebeau, Bob Bagwill, Dan Bernstein, Pascal Meheut, Rusty Wilson, Jonathan Kamens, Bill Houle, Todd Richmond, Mark Weissman, Chris Matheus, Lou Salkind, Bud Bach, R.K. Lloyd, Chip Rosenthal, David ...