Re: What is this rule for?

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Andreas Tscharner <starfire@sunrise.ch> writes:

> On 29.09.2009 08:21, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>
> > On the other hand, Section 10.4 says only "the script name should not
> > include an extension".  So you can leave the extension for
>
> What is the intention of this rule anyway?

To encourage command names (and hence command APIs, since the name is
part of the API for the command) that do not encode implementation
details, such as the programming language. This allows the program to be
later re-implemented in a different language without the command name
being misleading.

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Ben Finney