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Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au> 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'.