From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2002-10-25T02:47:39+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby calls perl

> C> Why does ruby call perl?
> 
>  Copyied from a P language (after a gsub :-))
> 
>        If the #! line does not contain the word "ruby", the pro�
>        gram named after the #! is executed instead of the Ruby
>        interpreter.  This is slightly bizarre, but it helps peo�
>        ple on machines that don't do #!, because they can tell a
>        program that their SHELL is /usr/bin/ruby, and Ruby will
>        then dispatch the program to the correct interpreter for
>        them.

And does anybody actually tell a program that their SHELL is ruby?

I think this feature is useless and confusing.