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		walls on April 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Add .txt As the Extension of Your Readme file Using that logic, let's get rid of extensions entirely. All applications from now on shall just be named EXECUTE.

drcube on April 30, 2013 [–]

Extensions should be for user convenience, not OS functionality. And files should be assumed to be text unless otherwise specified. IMHO.

walls on April 30, 2013 | [–]

So you're in favor of adding an extension to all executables, then?

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