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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary
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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