diff --git a/usr.bin/which/which.1 b/usr.bin/which/which.1
index b76b9a2f8ea..0b00b84f556 100644
--- a/usr.bin/which/which.1
+++ b/usr.bin/which/which.1
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
 .\" OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
-.Dd January 26, 1995
+.\"
+.Dd June 21, 2002
 .Dt WHICH 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -74,7 +75,12 @@ command first appeared in
 .Xr locate 1 ,
 .Xr whereis 1
 .Sh AUTHORS
-The PERL script for this more modern version of
+.An -nosplit
+The
 .Nm
-was written by
+utility was originally written in Perl and was contributed by
 .An Wolfram Schneider Aq wosch@FreeBSD.org .
+The current version of
+.Nm
+was rewritten in C by
+.An Daniel Papasian Aq dpapasia@andrew.cmu.edu .