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Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes

53 points by speckx 3mo ago

yeputons 3mo ago
I thought Ruby uses .rb (not .ru), and Scala uses .scala (not .sc).
- b3orn 3mo ago
  Yeah, should be .rb for Ruby. Also .mm isn't Objective-C, but Objective-C++.
- hocuspocus 3mo ago
  In Scala, .sc is used for worksheets and inconsistently for scripting, see https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/scripting https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/scripting for instance.
cachius 3mo ago
I love random associations between different concepts! And that the page title becomes 'Michaelsoft Teams' when inactive <3
jl6 3mo ago
We must prepare for the possibility of a malicious secession of Exeter City, likely with Chris Martin as president.
internet_points 3mo ago
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
inigyou 3mo ago
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?
- ValdikSS 3mo ago
  >Registration restrictions: Second-level registrations prohibited; must have a contact in Paraguay; subdomains have various restrictions; all applications subject to approval by registry >Structure: Registrations are at third level beneath second-level labels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.py https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.py
  - throw1234567891 3mo ago
    Maybe they do DNS in an Excel sheet?
    - 8n4vidtmkvmk 3mo ago
      Maybe they just want to use their country tld for things specific to their country instead of letting some shmucks scoop all the domains for useless junk?
- bdcravens 3mo ago
  Ruby is .rb, but .ru is affiliated with Ruby via rack (config.ru, where "ru" stands for "rack up")
zabzonk 3mo ago
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.
- z500 3mo ago
  On the flip side, .hpp always makes me chuckle. What is that, Header++?
  - bogdanoff_2 3mo ago
    Well... Yes. If you start including templates in it it definitely is
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3mo ago
  You want them to use .c++? Or .cpp?
andy_parhelia 3mo ago
.sh is Saint Helena? I always assumed it was just "shell". Are there any file extensions on the list that are technically country codes but nobody actually uses them for the country?
- WorldMaker 3mo ago
  All two letter TLDs are some country's code. .tv (the oldest and longest example of a popular country code used by businesses) is Tuvalu but Tuvalu makes a nice revenue in all the television domains so they are mostly happy with the arrangement. It amuses me how much it bugs some of my friends when I ask what they are watching today on "Twitch dot Tuvalu". A more controversial example is .io for the Chagos Islands which was assigned .io because at various times it has been referred to by its colonialist name the British Indian Ocean Territory. As a place it is full of ugly history including the British forcefully exiling big parts of the native population to help the US build a military base there. The registrar in charge of .io is a British company and the money has almost never benefited the natives or residents of the Chagos Islands. But it became the "hip" tech company TLD because it looks like input/output. There have been multiple awareness campaigns trying to get tech companies to offset this colonial bias in internet infrastructure with donations to useful charities.
  - cutterl6 3mo ago
    Since Europeans were first to discover and settle on the islands, wouldn't they have a greater claim to "indigenous" status than later ethnic groups? I genuinely don't understand, having had a quick read of the history, how your narrative of "colonialism" (in the pejorative) fits the actual timeline.
    - embedding-shape 3mo ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians > The Chagossians are a mix of African, South Asian, and Malay descent. The French brought some to the Chagos Islands as slaves from Mauritius in 1776. Others arrived as fishermen, farmers, and coconut plantation workers during the 19th century. Under international law, they are the indigenous peoples of the Chagos archipelago, as they are descended from the earliest human settlers of the islands.
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weinzierl 3mo ago
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.
bch 3mo ago
.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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tk [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_(software) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokelau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokelau
ahy1 3mo ago
Which are some interesting programs written in the Markdown programming language?
- echoangle 3mo ago
  I think according to the spec markdown can contain any JS program you want (inside raw html).
yread 3mo ago
.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

53 points by speckx 3mo ago

yeputons 3mo ago

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

b3orn 3mo ago
Yeah, should be .rb for Ruby. Also .mm isn't Objective-C, but Objective-C++.
hocuspocus 3mo ago
In Scala, .sc is used for worksheets and inconsistently for scripting, see https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/scripting https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/scripting for instance.

cachius 3mo ago

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

jl6 3mo ago

We must prepare for the possibility of a malicious secession of Exeter City, likely with Chris Martin as president.

internet_points 3mo ago

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

inigyou 3mo ago

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?

ValdikSS 3mo ago
>Registration restrictions: Second-level registrations prohibited; must have a contact in Paraguay; subdomains have various restrictions; all applications subject to approval by registry >Structure: Registrations are at third level beneath second-level labels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.py https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.py
- throw1234567891 3mo ago
  Maybe they do DNS in an Excel sheet?
  - 8n4vidtmkvmk 3mo ago
    Maybe they just want to use their country tld for things specific to their country instead of letting some shmucks scoop all the domains for useless junk?
bdcravens 3mo ago
Ruby is .rb, but .ru is affiliated with Ruby via rack (config.ru, where "ru" stands for "rack up")

zabzonk 3mo ago

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.

z500 3mo ago
On the flip side, .hpp always makes me chuckle. What is that, Header++?
- bogdanoff_2 3mo ago
  Well... Yes. If you start including templates in it it definitely is
8n4vidtmkvmk 3mo ago
You want them to use .c++? Or .cpp?

andy_parhelia 3mo ago

.sh is Saint Helena? I always assumed it was just "shell". Are there any file extensions on the list that are technically country codes but nobody actually uses them for the country?

WorldMaker 3mo ago
All two letter TLDs are some country's code. .tv (the oldest and longest example of a popular country code used by businesses) is Tuvalu but Tuvalu makes a nice revenue in all the television domains so they are mostly happy with the arrangement. It amuses me how much it bugs some of my friends when I ask what they are watching today on "Twitch dot Tuvalu". A more controversial example is .io for the Chagos Islands which was assigned .io because at various times it has been referred to by its colonialist name the British Indian Ocean Territory. As a place it is full of ugly history including the British forcefully exiling big parts of the native population to help the US build a military base there. The registrar in charge of .io is a British company and the money has almost never benefited the natives or residents of the Chagos Islands. But it became the "hip" tech company TLD because it looks like input/output. There have been multiple awareness campaigns trying to get tech companies to offset this colonial bias in internet infrastructure with donations to useful charities.
- cutterl6 3mo ago
  Since Europeans were first to discover and settle on the islands, wouldn't they have a greater claim to "indigenous" status than later ethnic groups? I genuinely don't understand, having had a quick read of the history, how your narrative of "colonialism" (in the pejorative) fits the actual timeline.
  - embedding-shape 3mo ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians > The Chagossians are a mix of African, South Asian, and Malay descent. The French brought some to the Chagos Islands as slaves from Mauritius in 1776. Others arrived as fishermen, farmers, and coconut plantation workers during the 19th century. Under international law, they are the indigenous peoples of the Chagos archipelago, as they are descended from the earliest human settlers of the islands.

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weinzierl 3mo ago

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.

bch 3mo ago

.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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tk [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_(software) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokelau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokelau

ahy1 3mo ago

Which are some interesting programs written in the Markdown programming language?

echoangle 3mo ago
I think according to the spec markdown can contain any JS program you want (inside raw html).

yread 3mo ago

.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