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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Dealing with multiple scripting languages (was: Elinating the 'rx' from AREXX)
Message-ID: <4149@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 31 Aug 89 12:01:08 GMT
References: <721@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <1989Aug29.031707.9022@agate.uucp> <7782@cbmvax.UUCP>
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In article <7782@cbmvax.UUCP>, jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
> 	This was discussed at length months ago on BIX in amiga.dev/
> suggestions.  The final more-or-less consensus was that you should look
> for the string #!...!# (... being name of interpreter) anywhere in the
> first line.

Isn't it nice when things fall together like this?

I would recommend allowing it in more than just the first line, though, since
some scripting languages like having the first line magic. Also, having some
mechanism for passing extra arguments to the command interpreter would be
useful.
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