There really is an exception to every rule. "Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence" and then you come across:
> The stage 0 shell snippet looks at first glance like a plausible part of
> the poorly readable autoconf/automake tooling.
> The stage 0 shell snippet looks at first glance like a plausible part of > the poorly readable autoconf/automake tooling.