On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:04:23PM -0700, Dean Theophilou wrote:
> O assoc .pl=Perl
As a note to those for whom it's not too late, the .pl extension is
historically associated with Perl Libraries. Although libraries still
work with modern Perls, their use has been discouraged since Perl5 was
released and so the extension has found use elsewhere, but I believe the
recommendation is to use a .plx extension for Perl executable scripts on
those platforms which require an extension to signify that a file is
executable.
Using the .pl extension to signify a Perl executable script will make
Perl libraries appear to be executable whereas in fact they are not. A
number of these libraries are still shipped as standard with Perl.
Now I feel like King Canute ;-)
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