"Because Larry said so." I recall long ago when the debate over /usr/bin/perl vs. /usr/local/bin/perl (this was before Linux, BTW) was raging. Larry personally requested that people standardize on #!/usr/bin/perl and make /usr/bin/perl a link to the default Perl binary. That is why the Perl installation process (if you build Perl from source code) offers to make /usr/bin/perl a link for you (it gives you the option of not doing not so much because you might not want /usr/bin/perl but because you might want to leave /usr/bin/perl pointing to your previous version while you take time to check out this new version that you just built and installed).

Other entries here document some of the reasons why this was a good idea. (:

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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