Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:38:33 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-2?q?S=B3awek_=AFak?= <zaks@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in #! processing Message-ID: <86is9qpvba.fsf@thirst.unx.era.pl> In-Reply-To: <20041002100703.GA501@isis.wad.cz> (Roman Neuhauser's message of "Sat, 2 Oct 2004 12:07:03 %2B0200") 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> <20041002100703.GA501@isis.wad.cz>
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Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> writes:
> # 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.
True. It's not in: Common Lisp, Scheme, SQL, M4, JavaScript. But as I stated
- shell and other interpreted languages are not the whole world.
/S
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