Subject: Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:35:21 -0700

Peter Williams <[email-masked]> 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'.