In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 01/06/2010
at 10:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:
>Except that Rexx EXECs and CLISTs may be mingled in a single SYSPROC
>library. Magic Numbers.
Well, magic comments. If it makes you feel better, in CMS there are three
script languages sharing a common file type, and the system has to read
the file to determine which interpreter to run. In *ix there's a generic
mechanism[1] for a script to specify the proper interpreter.
[1] Google for shebang
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