From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2005-02-12T23:57:32+09:00
Subject: Re: shebang line and ruby

Quoteing vnainar@mantraonline.com, on Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:28:21PM +0900:
> Hi!
>                   I  am learning  Ruby   and I was using python earlier.
>     I was trying  out small scripts ( cut and pasted from ruby docs )
>     and  in one  script I added shebang line invloking python instead
>     of ruby by mistake ( I use a bunch of vim 'abbreviations ' in my
>     .vimrc to add the lines for perl , python ,sh. etc). When I ran
>     " ruby file.rb" , ruby   exec'd python !

I believe this has been commented on before, and that it is common
behaviour of perl and ruby and maybe several other languages.

>     I thought only  the shell is supposed to use the shebang line.

The OS loader understands #!.

Cheers,
Sam