alex@vsys.com (Alex Barclay) writes:
> On Saturday, February 14, 1998 7:20 AM, CyberPeasant:
> > > unix shells are programmed to look for a special format comment line at the
> > > beginning of any script and if it points to a valid shell to switch to that
> > > shell instead of processing the script themselves.
> > This statement appears to be incorrect in all respects.
> True now, but not historically so.

This code was in systemV until at least SVR3.  

I recall seeing it while trying to figure out how best to fix the
millions of NULL pointer dereference problems it had.

At least the systemV version of the shell was written in C.

-wolfgang