From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:13:05 GMT Subject: Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary Message-ID: <7vr7c35qoe.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds 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.