Re: Vendors Considered Evil (Re: Perl use over NFS)

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From: Pete Holsberg
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 02:47

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In article <1992Aug28.180137.22861@ra.msstate.edu> fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
=Because perl is a scripting language.  That means it wants to have a #!
=line at the beginning with the path name to an executable.
=
=But scripts have a path hardwired into them almost by definition.

Not all shells/UNIXes respond to #! stuff, so some of us have to edit
all distributed perl scripts! Like, if we have to do it, ...

;-)

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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
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Subject: Re: Vendors Considered Evil (Re: Perl use over NFS)
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Date: 30 Aug 92 02:47:04 GMT
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