Recommendation is to avoid using the year nomenclature as this
information is already encoded in the git repo. Avoids needing to
repeatly update.
Also updates AUTHORS.txt from current repo with contributor names
Pin names like "+V" were incorrectly parsed as doubles leading to broken
comparisons. These caused heap overflows when sorting pin tables
This corrects the comparison so that numeric sorts are only performed
when there is an actual number in the symbol segment. Also adds unit
tests for common error cases
