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Please add credit to the two Jewish authors behind the Hebcal algorithms

Tomer 6 months ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 6 months ago 1

The Hebcal UNIX program was a C reimplementation of the calendar code found in the Emacs text editor. That was written by Prof. Edward Reingold, who wrote a book on calendar algorithms with Nahum Dershowitz. I think it would be showing kavod to include both their names under the "About" page on Hebcal.org, as they are the ones who contributed the core technology. Here is a page with more information:

http://hebcal.github.io/

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EdwardReingold

Thanks,

~Tomer Altman

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Thanks for the suggestion. We updated our "about Hebcal" page as follows

Hebcal was created in 1992 by Danny Sadinoff as a Unix/Linux program, derived in large part from the Emacs 19 calendar routines by Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz.

https://www.hebcal.com/home/about

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Thanks for the suggestion. We updated our "about Hebcal" page as follows

Hebcal was created in 1992 by Danny Sadinoff as a Unix/Linux program, derived in large part from the Emacs 19 calendar routines by Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz.

https://www.hebcal.com/home/about