From: Jim Weirich <jweirich@...>
Date: 2003-04-20T14:40:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Multi-Lingual Ruby

On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 01:21, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > Actually, you shouldn't be, since that seems to (somehow) be the
> > source of the problem.  Make it ##!/... and the problem goes away.
> > 
> > The question is why this influences ruby...

Perl allows the same thing.  Consider the file masquerade.pl ...

  $ cat masquerade.pl
  #!/usr/bin/env ruby
  puts "HA!  This is really a Ruby Program!"
  $
  $ perl masquerade.pl 
  HA!  This is really a Ruby Program!

This is a stealth measure that allows us Rubists to write code in a
perl-only shop.  :-)

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