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

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 5, 2005, 18:13 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr7c35qoe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509050738340.3504@evo.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> ... and I don't see _any_ point to naming 
> by what _kind_ of interpreter you use. Why would _anybody_ care whether 
> something is written in perl vs shell?

One possibility that comes to mind is to again help developers who use an editor that is syntax-aware and looks *only* at filename suffix to figure out which language syntax to use (Emacs is not one of them -- it knows how to read #! line).

Another is, although we do not currently do it, to make the Makefile simpler if/when we start to do the interpreter line munging ("#!/usr/bin/perl -> #!/usr/local/bin/perl") before install time.

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