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Guile manual has incorrect history on the name

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Message #23 received at 57440 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab <at> web.de>
To: 57440 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57440: [patch] Guile manual has incorrect history on the name
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:57:32 +0100

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> --- a/doc/ref/history.texi
> +++ b/doc/ref/history.texi
> @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ the argument was that eventually when GEL became more capable, it
>  could gain the ability to execute other languages, especially Emacs
>  Lisp.
>  
> -Due to a naming conflict with another programming language, Jim Blandy
> +Due to a naming conflict with another programming language, Lee Thomas
>  suggested a new name for GEL: ``Guile''. Besides being a recursive
>  acronym, ``Guile'' craftily follows the naming of its ancestors,
>  ``Planner'', ``Conniver'', and ``Schemer''. (The latter was truncated
> -- 

Is this good to go? I can nowadays push the change myself, so a simple
lgtm gets this into Guile :-)

Best wishes,
Arne
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