Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary

From: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Date: Sep 5, 2005, 00:45 UTC
Message-ID: <431B9521.1010703@bigpond.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <7vbr38bbcm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> writes:
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>>*.pl is what is usually used for perl scripts.
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> My recollection may be faulty, but '*.pl' was meant to be used
> for older Perl libraries back in perl4 days, and the standalone
> scripts are to be named '*.perl' but many people made the
> mistake of naming them '*.pl'.

I'm no expert and was just reporting what I'd observed but that observation wasn't thorough enough to notice the distinction that you make so forget what I said. :-)

Peter

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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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