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Date:      Sat, 2 Oct 2004 12:07:03 +0200
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz>
To:        =?iso-8859-2?Q?S=B3awek_=AFak?= <zaks@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bug in #! processing
Message-ID:  <20041002100703.GA501@isis.wad.cz>
In-Reply-To: <86mzz8x8zv.fsf@thirst.unx.era.pl>
References:  <861xgm5ltz.fsf@thirst.unx.era.pl> <20040928194853.GT2493@submonkey.net> <86k6ud2t6t.fsf@thirst.unx.era.pl> <20040929131136.GA2493@submonkey.net> <86mzz8x8zv.fsf@thirst.unx.era.pl>

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# zaks@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl / 2004-09-30 13:59:48 +0200:
>     I don't see a convincing use for comments on the first line of script.
>     Hash is special already when treated as comment character. # is not a
>     comment in any `scripting language'. It is a shell legacy and shouldn't
>     be forced on the remaining universe.

    '#' is the (or a) comment character in awk, perl, PHP, python, ruby and
    sed, just from the top of my head.

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