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Is the Perl .plx filename extension ever used in real-life?


ActiveState Perl installs an IIS script mapping for the extension .plx. Is this actually used in real life or just something specific to ActiveState?


Solution

  • No, it's not just from ActiveState. O'Reilly's Learning Perl on Win32 systems recommends naming scripts with a .plx extension to disambiguate them from perl modules (with .pm) and non-executable perl libraries (.pl). Nowadays however I'd name anything that is going to be directly run as .pl.