From: Tim Heaney <heaney@...>
Date: 2003-04-21T03:02:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Multi-Lingual Ruby

Ryan Pavlik <rpav@nwlink.com> writes:
> 
> The question is why this influences ruby...

In the Perl documentation, it says

       If the #! line does not contain the word "perl", the pro-
       gram named after the #! is executed instead of the Perl
       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/perl, and Perl will
       then dispatch the program to the correct interpreter for
       them.

Perhaps Matz reasoned similarly for Ruby.

Tim