From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Williams Subject: Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:45:21 +1000 Message-ID: <431B9521.1010703@bigpond.net.au> References: <200509042143.j84LhDZo020359@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <7vmzmsbcuc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <431B90B9.4000108@bigpond.net.au> <7vbr38bbcm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Horst von Brand , Daniel Barkalow , Tim Ottinger , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 05 02:46:04 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EC57K-0003F5-4m for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:45:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932123AbVIEApY (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:45:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932146AbVIEApY (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:45:24 -0400 Received: from omta01sl.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.92.153]:6311 "EHLO omta01sl.mx.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932123AbVIEApX (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Sep 2005 20:45:23 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (really [147.10.133.38]) by omta01sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20050905004521.LFSF5164.omta01sl.mx.bigpond.com@[192.168.0.2]>; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:45:21 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7vbr38bbcm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at omta01sl.mx.bigpond.com from [147.10.133.38] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Mon, 5 Sep 2005 00:45:21 +0000 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Peter Williams 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'. I'm no expert and was just reporting what I'd observed but that observation wasn't thorough enough to notice the distinction that you make so forget what I said. :-) Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce