From: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:45:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary
Message-ID: <431B9521.1010703@bigpond.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <7vbr38bbcm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> writes:
> 
> 
>>*.pl is what is usually used for perl scripts.
> 
> 
> 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

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
  -- Ambrose Bierce