>>>>> "C" == Carlos  <angus / quovadis.com.ar> writes:

C> Why does ruby call perl?

 Copyied from a P language (after a gsub :-))

       If the #! line does not contain the word "ruby", the pro       gram named after the #! is executed instead of the Ruby
       interpreter.  This is slightly bizarre, but it helps peo       ple on machines that don't do #!, because they can tell a
       program that their SHELL is /usr/bin/ruby, and Ruby will
       then dispatch the program to the correct interpreter for
       them.


Guy Decoux