From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-10-25T02:58:51+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby calls perl

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:47:39AM +0900, Carlos wrote:
> > 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?

But irb could do the trick :-)

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