From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 07:59:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509060057491.4316@evo.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vll2atz8a.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > The point is, naming things as being "scripts" is useful. Grep is just an 
> > example. Naming things as being ".pl" or ".sh" is _not_ useful.
> 
> Sorry, but why not?

What's the upside?

I can point to one downside: "git". That script right now is simple. If 
you rewrite git-cvsimport-script from shell to perl, it looks the same to 
git. 

		Linus