Re: What is this rule for?

[Andreas Tscharner <starfire@sunrise.ch>]

Gunnar Wolf wrote:

[snip]
> And because extensions truly mean nothing. Of course, I can

This is true for Unix/Posix systems, but unfortunately not for Windows 
systems. And if the maintainer of a great Perl script wants his script 
to work on both platforms, he'll probably will name it GreatPerlScript.pl
If the extension .pl is linked with a Perl interpreter in Windows, he'll 
be able to run it on both systems without a prepending "perl"

Don't get me wrong here: I see the reasons for removing the extensions, 
but I think this is a valid point for having one in the first place.

Best regards
	Andreas
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Andreas Tscharner                                  starfire@sunrise.ch
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