Re^2: #! -- why doth thou exist?

[ww]

true, and note:
  s/Your mileage may vary on non-unix systems/Your mileage WILL vary on windows/

[polypompholyx]

Although you will need a shebang if you are running a perl CGI script under Apache over Windows...

#!D:\perl\bin\perl.exe -T
use strict;
use CGI;
...blah...