From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2002-10-24T23:58:04+09:00
Subject: ruby calls perl

Why does ruby call perl?

I made a mistake and put in the first line:

#!/usr/bin/perl

instead of

#!/usr/bin/ruby

. And when I ran "ruby -c myscript" the output was, of course, a lot of
syntax errors that I didn't understand at first until I realized that ruby
had called perl to do the syntax checking!

Why? Wouldn't make more sense a message like "Warning: this is not the perl
interpreter. Syntax OK.", or, if ruby wants so bad to call perl, another
message saying so: "warning: calling perl interpreter!"?