From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:41:30 GMT Subject: Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200509050054.j850sC3D023778@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Horst von Brand wrote: > > I had the same opinion. The counter-argument people raised when > > this topic came up on the list was that it would help grepping > > in the source tree. > > Grepping for what? Grepping for strings. For example, when renaming a binary, the sane way to check that you fixed all users right now is grep old-binary-name *.c *.h *-scripts and you catch all users. In contrast, "grep *" will catch totally uninteresting patterns like object files etc. I personally find that very useful, 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? There's no reason to name things by the interpreter. Kubys