From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-04-20T16:11:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Multi-Lingual Ruby

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 02:49:40PM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 02:40:09PM +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:
> > Perl allows the same thing.  Consider the file masquerade.pl ...
> > 
> 
> It also works for the shells (then again, I would have expected that).  
> But it doesn't work for Python:
> 
> dcarrera ~ $ cat example.pl 
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> puts "Hello World"
> dcarrera ~ $ perl example.pl 
> Hello World
> dcarrera ~ $ sh example.pl 
> Hello World 
> dcarrera ~ $ tcsh example.pl 
> Hello World 
> dcarrera ~ $ csh example.pl 
> Hello World
> dcarrera ~ $ python example.pl 
>   File "example.pl", line 2
>     puts "Hello World"
>                      ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> dcarrera ~ $

Can we infer something on the evilness of languages (as in 'intention
to take on the world') ;-) ?

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