Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!think!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!calgary!enme3!deraadt From: deraadt@enme3.ucalgary.ca (Theo Deraadt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Dealing with multiple scripting languages (was: Elinating the 'rx' from AREXX) Message-ID: <1746@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> Date: 24 Aug 89 06:56:41 GMT Sender: news@calgary.UUCP Reply-To: deraadt@enme3.UUCP (Theo Deraadt) Organization: U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Lines: 9 I find this entire discussion rather silly; being as the Unix way is the most flexible. I mean, what part of the system knows better what shell interpreter a shell script should be run by, than the shell script file itself? Why not just use the #! syntax, and make the kernel know to follow the current system path. I swear, some people just have a deathwish for all Unix semantics. Gad..