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==Other contributions== Allman is credited with popularizing the [[Allman style|Allman indent style]], also known as BSD indent style.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/indent-style.html |title= Indent style |access-date=2007-08-20 |work=The Jargon File }}</ref> He ported a Fortran version of [[Star Trek (1971 video game)|Super Star Trek]] to the C programming language, which later became BSD Trek, and is still included in various Linux distributions as part of the classic bsdgames package.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/03/antique_code_show_star_trek/ |title=Star Trek: The original computer game|website=[[The Register]] }}</ref> He was awarded the Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology in August, 2006 in [[Telluride, Colorado]]. In 2009 he was recognized as a Distinguished Engineer by the [[Association for Computing Machinery]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/distinguished-09/ |title= ACM Names 84 Distinguished Members for Advances in Computing Technology|publisher= Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=27 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114003941/http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/distinguished-09/|archive-date=14 January 2010}}</ref> In April 2014 he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web|title=Inductees {{ndash}} Eric Allman|work=[[Internet Hall of Fame]]|url=http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/eric-allman}}</ref>
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