RE: [ID 20000330.044] Not OK: perl v5.6.0 on VMS_AXP V7.1

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:54 AM 4/4/00 -0400, Jordan Henderson wrote:
>From:   Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>>At 10:43 AM 4/4/00 -0400, Jordan Henderson wrote:
>>
>> >Embedding VMSPIPE.COM in VMS.C and writing it out as needed?  Deja vu!
>>
>>Hey, the build process writes out code left and right. Why not do it at
>>runtime too? As a backup, mind, so we can fix the default version on the
>>fly, but still...
>
>Charles (Lane) began the implementation of VMSPIPE.COM by writing it out from
>VMS.C and was convinced by Charles (Bailey) that this was not best.

Ah. Well, I guess I haven't been paying enough attention...

Sounds like a good "Don't *do* that" message is the way to go...

                                        Dan

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