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@@ -7,41 +7,52 @@ SWIG History
 Just the facts:
 
 <ul>
-<li>July, 1995. SWIG developed in the Theoretical Physics Division at Los Alamos National
-Laboratory as an extension building tool for a lame customized scripting language
-that had been created for the Connection Machine 5.  
+<li>July, 1995. Dave develops SWIG while working in the Theoretical
+Physics Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Originally, it
+was conceived as an extension building tool for a customized scripting
+language that had been created for the Connection Machine 5.
 
-<li>January, 1996. SWIG rewritten in C++ at the University of Utah and expanded to cover
-Tcl, Perl, and Guile.
+<li>January, 1996. SWIG rewritten in C++ at the University of Utah and expanded to cover Tcl, Perl, and Guile.
 
 <li>February, 1996. First alpha release.
 
 <li>September, 1996. Version 1.0 released.  Support for Python added.
 
-<li>September, 1997. Version 1.1 released with a variety of improvements.
+<li>September, 1997. Version 1.1 released with a variety of improvements such as shadow classes.
 
 <li>February, 1998. SWIG1.1p5 released.
 
-<li>1997-1999.  Various attempts are made to create SWIG2.0 without much success.
-Mostly this is due to annoying distractions such as writing dissertations, searching for jobs, and so forth.
+<li>1997-1999.  Various unsuccessful attempts to create SWIG2.0.
+Aside from various second system effects, there were other
+distractions such as a dissertation and searching for a job.  All
+of this work was abandoned although parts of it are found in
+newer SWIG releases.
 
 <li>July, 1998. SWIG development moves to the University of Chicago.
 
 <li>January 1, 2000.  Dave survives his most pleasant Y2K flight to Chicago O'Hare.
 
-<li>February 11, 2000. SWIG1.3 alpha released.  
+<li>February 11, 2000. SWIG1.3 alpha released.   This is the first in
+a series of releases that slowly migrate most of SWIG's implementation
+back to ANSI C.
+
 <li>March 1, 2000. SWIG1.3a2 released.
 <li>June 18, 2000. SWIG1.3a3 released.
 <li>September 4, 2000. SWIG1.3a4 released.
 <li>September 22, 2000. SWIG1.3a5 released.
+<li>July 9, 2001. SWIG-1.3.6 released.
+<li>September 3, 2001. SWIG-1.3.7 released.  Support for templates and better
+handling of overloaded functions added.
+<li>September 23, 2001. SWIG-1.3.8 released.
+<li>September 25, 2001. SWIG-1.3.9 released.
 
 </ul>
 
 <p>
 Currently SWIG is being rewritten in ANSI C and reorganized in an
 attempt to simplify the construction of language modules and to
-improve the quality of the code that is generated.   As this is only a part-time project for
-just about everyone involved,  this work will be completed when it is completed (i.e., don't
-hold your breath).
+improve the quality of the code that is generated.  As this is only a
+part-time project for just about everyone involved, this work will be
+completed when it is completed.