* history of mrproper
@ 2001-07-04 3:33 Mike Sklar
2001-07-04 3:48 ` Kurt Maxwell Weber
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From: Mike Sklar @ 2001-07-04 3:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Hopefully someone could enlighten me on the history of mrproper. I think
its a great name for making sources *proper*. In particular I'd like to
know what the *mr* might stand for.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread* Re: history of mrproper 2001-07-04 3:33 history of mrproper Mike Sklar @ 2001-07-04 3:48 ` Kurt Maxwell Weber 2001-07-04 4:33 ` David Chambers 2001-07-04 4:36 ` Kip Macy 2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Kurt Maxwell Weber @ 2001-07-04 3:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Mike Sklar; +Cc: linux-kernel On Tuesday 03 July 2001 22:33, Mike Sklar ignorantly blabbered: > Hopefully someone could enlighten me on the history of mrproper. I think > its a great name for making sources *proper*. In particular I'd like to > know what the *mr* might stand for. To differentiate it from Mrs. Proper. -- Regards, Kurt Weber kmw@rowsw.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: history of mrproper 2001-07-04 3:33 history of mrproper Mike Sklar 2001-07-04 3:48 ` Kurt Maxwell Weber @ 2001-07-04 4:33 ` David Chambers 2001-07-04 4:36 ` Kip Macy 2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: David Chambers @ 2001-07-04 4:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Mike Sklar; +Cc: linux-kernel On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mike Sklar wrote: > > Hopefully someone could enlighten me on the history of mrproper. I think > its a great name for making sources *proper*. In particular I'd like to > know what the *mr* might stand for. > Mr Proper looks like he's an alias of Mr. Clean (Procter and Gamble). A very appropriate name considering the deep cleaning that "make mrproper" does! See e.g. www.mrproper.de and www.mrclean.com :-) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: history of mrproper 2001-07-04 3:33 history of mrproper Mike Sklar 2001-07-04 3:48 ` Kurt Maxwell Weber 2001-07-04 4:33 ` David Chambers @ 2001-07-04 4:36 ` Kip Macy 2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Kip Macy @ 2001-07-04 4:36 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Mike Sklar; +Cc: linux-kernel Mr. Proper On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mike Sklar wrote: > > Hopefully someone could enlighten me on the history of mrproper. I think > its a great name for making sources *proper*. In particular I'd like to > know what the *mr* might stand for. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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