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Bah, people who use .CC or .cc for C++ files deserve to be beaten about the head with a baseball bat. It's not clever.

by zabzonk

I love random associations between different concepts! And that the page title becomes 'Michaelsoft Teams' when inactive <3

by cachius

I thought Ruby uses .rb (not .ru), and Scala uses .scala (not .sc).

by yeputons

.cs is missing (for Czechoslovakia). Anecdotally, it also seems that c# is more popular in Czech Republic than in neighboring countries. Also quite some people from the MS C# team from there

by yread

Try also

    wget https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/downloads/iso-639-3.tab
    grep -xFf <(grep -o ^... iso-639-3.tab) /usr/share/dict/british-english
You can make whole English sentences out of ISO 639-3 language codes:

    woo yes, any fun car has the big dry cat, and thy ads are zen too; bye!
using the codes of Manombai Nyankpa Anyin Fulniô Galibi_Carib Haisla Chitwania_Tharu Biangai Darai Catalan Ansus Tha Adamorobe_Sign_Language Western_Arrarnta Zenaga Xicotepec_De_Juárez_Totonac Pouye

by internet_points

Isn't ruby .RB?

And why have I not seen loads an loads of .py domains for python? Paraguay is a stable enough country for this purpose. Do they limit domain names to residents?

by inigyou

Back in the day pl was a real problem.

It was and is the conventional extension for the Perl programming language, and Perl was most popular for server side (CGI) scripts for some time.

At same time the idea that webserver and user agent should negotiate the most suitable form of content was all the rage. Little of that survived (compression algorithm) but it used to be used for language as well.

Apache had the convention to use the two letter language code as file extension to encode the language. For example it shipped with collection of error messages in many languages, e.g. 404.html.pl.

Since this conflicted with Perl CGI scripts, Perl got .plx for Perl Executable in Apache and it was proposed as the official Perl extension, but did not stick.

by weinzierl

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  • Hacker News
  • Bah, people who use .CC or .cc for C++ files deserve to be beaten about the head with a baseball bat. It's not clever.
    by zabzonk
  • I love random associations between different concepts! And that the page title becomes 'Michaelsoft Teams' when inactive <3
    by cachius
  • I thought Ruby uses .rb (not .ru), and Scala uses .scala (not .sc).
    by yeputons
  • .cs is missing (for Czechoslovakia). Anecdotally, it also seems that c# is more popular in Czech Republic than in neighboring countries. Also quite some people from the MS C# team from there
    by yread
  • Try also

        wget https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/downloads/iso-639-3.tab
    grep -xFf <(grep -o ^... iso-639-3.tab) /usr/share/dict/british-english
    You can make whole English sentences out of ISO 639-3 language codes:

        woo yes, any fun car has the big dry cat, and thy ads are zen too; bye!
    using the codes of Manombai Nyankpa Anyin Fulniô Galibi_Carib Haisla Chitwania_Tharu Biangai Darai Catalan Ansus Tha Adamorobe_Sign_Language Western_Arrarnta Zenaga Xicotepec_De_Juárez_Totonac Pouye
    by internet_points
  • .tk[0] (e.g. a component of a Tcl/Tk[1] (or perhaps Perl/Tk, or Python/Tkinter) belongs to Tokelau[2].

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tk

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_(software)

    [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokelau

    by bch
  • Isn't ruby .RB?

    And why have I not seen loads an loads of .py domains for python? Paraguay is a stable enough country for this purpose. Do they limit domain names to residents?

    by inigyou
  • Back in the day pl was a real problem.

    It was and is the conventional extension for the Perl programming language, and Perl was most popular for server side (CGI) scripts for some time.

    At same time the idea that webserver and user agent should negotiate the most suitable form of content was all the rage. Little of that survived (compression algorithm) but it used to be used for language as well.

    Apache had the convention to use the two letter language code as file extension to encode the language. For example it shipped with collection of error messages in many languages, e.g. 404.html.pl.

    Since this conflicted with Perl CGI scripts, Perl got .plx for Perl Executable in Apache and it was proposed as the official Perl extension, but did not stick.

    by weinzierl