update wording about authorship

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
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@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ The fast table representation is a partial implementation of a design
 done by Van Jacobson.  The implementation was done by Kevin Gong and
 Vern Paxson.
 
-The reentrancy support, including the original nroff version of the
-documentation of the API, was written by John Millaway.
+In 2001, W. L. Estes took over as maintainer of flex.
 
-W. L. Estes converted the nroff manual into texinfo and further
-mangled the manual from there.
+John Millaway is a co-author of the current version of flex. He has
+contributed a large number of new features, fixed a large number of
+outstanding bugs and has made significant contributions to the flex
+documentation.