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rclkrtrzckr
394 days ago
Isn't ".pl" actually used for perl?
Well, there might be a Prolog interpreter written in (a) perl (regex) ...
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ajdude
394 days ago
Prolog was using .pl for a bit over a decade before Perl existed.
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userbinator
394 days ago
My first thought upon reading your comment was "it's used for Poland" ;-)
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thijsvandien
394 days ago
Then using .prl in stead wouldn’t have helped much…
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tikhonj
394 days ago
It's used for both which consistently confuses logic that guess programming language purely based on file extensions.
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jimjimjim
394 days ago
Prolog is a older than Perl and there doesn't need to be any exclusive claim on file extensions.
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