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In article <1992Aug28.183918.22664@sei.cmu.edu> kochmar@sei.cmu.edu (John Kochmar) writes:

>You've gotta be kidding, right?  You're not advocating that perl be
>placed in /usr/bin so that scripts you pick up from who-knows-where
>will run without modification, right?
>
>I got the same response from someone else in private mail.  Since I
>don't make a habit of picking up a script and running it without
>checking it over, I don't see changing the #! at the beginning to be
>that big a deal.

That's fine if you are the only user of the system.  If you are the only one
using your machine, stick perl in /usr/local/software/thats/really/neat, and
even put sh wherever you want too.

But when you have a multi-user environment, and new users coming in, they
expect that programs will be in certain commonly known locations, like sh
and perl.  I don't neccesarily like where it goes, but that is where most
people expect to find it.

Bob
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