> 
> 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
> 

I stand corrected and chastised.

Dave