On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, at 4:52 AM, Harmen Stoppels via Patches for autoconf - the GNU build system wrote: > The shell comment `# Blame Lee E. McMahon (1931-1989) for sed's > syntax. :-)` is redistributed in all release tarballs of all autotools > packages since 2001.
Lee Edward McMahon was the original author of the `sed` utility. I don't have a strong opinion here but it actually seems like a humorous tribute to me and worth preserving. zw
