[George Danchev]
> However, I'm afraid that we have some sort of asymmetry at our side,
> since we claim that both (py* vs. *.py) are annoying, but make sure
> policy discriminates only one of them.
I think that is a historical accident.  Before python got so popular,
language-based prefixes were not common, but suffixes have always been
popular, probably because people came from MS-DOS and its spiritual
descendent, Windows NT.

The other reason suffixes are worse is, again due to influence from
MS-DOS, people don't think of them as part of the name.  And, removing
the suffix does not cause problems with tab completion in the shell.
So it seems less harsh to strip suffixes than to strip prefixes.
-- 
Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/


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