Whenever you’re learning a new programming language, it’s easy to criticize all the boilerplate text you need to memorize. Before you can get comfortable starting a project, you have to remember the preambles that, in theory, ought to be easy to remember since they’re usually relatively short and repetitive. In practice, though, boilerplate text is too obscure in meaning to become an easy habit, but it’s essential for a program to run.
Sometimes the text is just one line. For example, a shell script opens with a simple “shebang”:
