For FM3, because the template language changes, we need to change the
standard (recommended) template file extension. I propose this:

- ftl to fm3
- ftlx to fm3x
- ftlh to fm3h

Why not ftl3? Mostly because I think that "FTL" is kind of cryptic for
the casual user (which is almost all the users for a template
language), and so it was a mistake to introduce that term. Also in
almost all languages, the file extensions is the same or the
abbreviation of the project name. The user already knows that this
thing is called FreeMarker, hence, "fm" is the most speaking
extension. Also, we will have to clearly differentiate FreeMarker 2
from FreeMarker 3, to avoid confusion (which Manual to look into),
hence the "3". (BTW, back in the FM1 times the extensions was usually
"fm"... it should have been "fm2" after that.)

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Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany

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