On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 04:15:22PM -0000, Curt wrote: > On 2023-12-09, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Friday, 8 Dec 2023 at 17:06, Pocket wrote: > >> In Unix and Linux there isn't a file extension, that is a microsoft > >> invention. > > > > Predates MS by years. Systems like RSTS/E on PDP-11s, just to name one. > > They certainly are convenient. When they aren't a lie. Remember those "foo.jpg.exe"? I always consider putting metadata in a file name a "design smell" [1]. That's why I cringe when people name executables "foo.sh". What do you do when you decide to rewrite the thing in C (or Rust, or whatever)? Do you go over all calling sites and change the caller's code? Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_smell -- t
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