Re: Origin Of Filename Extension Dot Separator

"Mr. Chang Man-wai" <[email protected]>
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On 8/18/2026 5:57 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Under ITS I think they were just separated by a space

The "dot separator" is just the full-stop
symbol in english language, or the decimal
point in mathematics.

Of course, you can use symbols or punctuation
marks differently. There are no laws to forbid
that.

Don't mystify nor glorify computer technology!
It's still english language after all.

Of course, some daemons do NOT wanna see
certain sacred or holy symbols in various
languages. They will rename, redirect,
shift, swap, invert, twist, turn, ...

I don't wanna go off-topic nor cross-topic.
Well... Meow....  ;)


Full stop - Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop>

Punctuation - Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation>



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