Re: history of mrproper

David Chambers (davidc@ccmi.salk.edu)
Tue, 3 Jul 2001 21:33:44 -0700 (PDT)


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 :-)

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