From: Peter Whaite <peta@whaite.ca>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Calling Perl scripts without the .pl
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:27:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FE46A4E.2020909@whaite.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D3109718233BBC49B2CF251FDEAC1092AA7FC9@msgsw55mnmsp05.wellsfargo.com>
Eric.D.Friedman@wellsfargo.com wrote:
>What's odd about this is, of course, that '.pl' was never an extension that
>meant "perl script" -- it was always "perl library" in just the way that
>".pm" is now used for perl modules. But windows couldn't function without a
>canonical extension name and so that little detail has been lost in the
>hoary mists of time....
>
>
I like the Active state convention of '.plx', which I guess means 'perl
executable'. But now I'm totally off topic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-20 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-19 18:23 Eric.D.Friedman
2003-12-20 15:27 ` Peter Whaite [this message]
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2003-12-19 16:35 zzapper
2003-12-19 16:36 ` zzapper
2003-12-19 17:55 ` William H. Magill
2003-12-19 18:17 ` zzapper
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