Re: [PATCH] Remove redistributed "Blame Lee E. McMahon" shell comment

[Harmen Stoppels]

All good. Just wondered whether the comment was meant to end up in everybody's
configure scripts, or whether it was an accidental shell comment instead
of an m4 comment. For example c04c47665cd57b5399f92ff5607544889d5bfda9
partially undid the long shell comment.


On Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 at 1:50 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> 
wrote:

> On 1/13/25 06:23, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > I don't have a strong opinion here but it actually seems like a humorous
> > tribute to me and worth preserving.
> 
> 
> I introduced that comment in 2001, in Autoconf commit
> 4c359a43491c37203e08f2350cff1043a87ca18b.
> 
> I probably met Lee when I gave a talk at Bell Labs in the 1970s.
> Although I don't remember him personally, given the overall attitudes of
> the people that I met I expect Lee would have appreciated rather than
> disapproved of the comment.