Re: policy should frown on programs in PATH with language extentions (ie, .pl)

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:03:44PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> I would personnally be fine with only:
> 
>     When scripts are installed into into a directory in the system PATH,
>     the script name should not include an extension such as .sh or .pl
>     that denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it.
> 
> but I can easily be persuaded otherwise.

I'd like a "just" or "simply" before the "denotes", otherwise
we'll get cheeky people arguing that naming a perl script "doit.sh"
is just fine :)

Richard Braakman