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by 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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Prolog was using .pl for a bit over a decade before Perl existed.
My first thought upon reading your comment was "it's used for Poland" ;-)
Then using .prl in stead wouldn’t have helped much…
It's used for both which consistently confuses logic that guess programming language purely based on file extensions.
Prolog is a older than Perl and there doesn't need to be any exclusive claim on file extensions.