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From: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why does this shell program run under csh????
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Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 15:57:29 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 18 15:57:29 1987
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In article <206@stc-auts.UUCP> kak@stc-auts.UUCP (Kris Kugel) writes:
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>I will just barely refrain from saying what I think about
>a command language which uses comments as control structures.

Lots of languages do it: Pascal.... {$U+}
			 C..... /* VARARGS */

Granted, they're not *control* structures, but neither is #!/bin/csh -f
Think of it as more of a run time option.....
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