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February 19, 2005
Palm .pdb files vs. .Net's .pdb files
There are several thousands of Palm OS applications out there. The Palm database files have an extension of .pdb.
.Net programmers cry foul and say pdb stands for "a program database file that stores debugging and project state information. This binary file gets generated when you compile any C, C++, C# program in .Net. Palm should have done their research first!"
Palm programmers just laugh away and say PDB was used by Palm from the beginning and Microsoft is better known for “adopting and extending”.
I was thinking about conflicts with file extensions. Is there a registry like ICANN for file extensions? If not, how do they avoid conflicts?
Imagine Adobe starting to use .doc file extensions for their graphic applications or Microsoft using .pdf file extensions for Excel. Which can be worst?
Posted by gunjan at February 19, 2005 04:31 PM