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Re: Calling Perl scripts without the .pl

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From: Peter Whaite <peta@xxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Calling Perl scripts without the .pl
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:27:10 -0500
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Eric.D.Friedman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 'perlexecutable'. But now I'm totally off topic.

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