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

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 5, 2005, 00:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbr38bbcm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <431B90B9.4000108@bigpond.net.au>

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'.

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