Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:02 +0000 | From | leo.howell@ntlworld ... | Subject | Re: make mrproper |
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Long ago, about January 24, Joseph wrote: > >From John Levon on Wednesday, 24 January, 2001: > >Idle curiosity, but what does the "mr" in make mrproper > >stand for ? > > My guess is that it is a joke. 'Meister Proper' is the German > Mister Clean (the big, bald guy on the same-name cleaning > agent bottle). I'm not sure of the spelling, though. It's been > a while since I've seen the commercials. > I dunno if it's Finnish, though. Never been there. Maybe it was > put in by a German developer. Maybe not. It was there when > I started.
Hmm; I always thought it stood for m(ake the)r(emake) proper ie, recompile properly if something got messed up.
But I like the Mister Clean better :)
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