File Suffix

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Fri Jan 21 00:37:12 EST 2011


> So, my question is "Who the H*** decided, in their little pea-brain, that
> they would break the convention (that has been around since Pontius was a
> Pilot) of a filename, a period (a full-stop for all you commonwealth people)
> and then finally a three character suffix."?
> 
> Don't you think that this git should be taken out and tarred and feathered?

Well, they certainly aren't the first to break this convention:

.html  (HTML Pages)
.docx, .xlsx, .pptx (Microsoft Office Documents)
.torrent (Bittorrent)
.curl (CURL)
.ooutline (OmniOutliner Documents)
.styk, .stykz (Stykz Documents)

etc...

Just FYI,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/






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