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in reply to Re: RFC: A Primer on Writing Portable Perl Programs
in thread RFC: A Primer on Writing Portable Perl Programs

on Windows I nearly always turn off the file association between .pl and perl
For a different approach (motivated by spending more time on the cmd prompt than in explorer windows) I extend the PATHEXT (system) environment variable with a ";.PL" to be able to call my Perl scripts by name without extension.
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