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That's a comforting thought, and I suspect you're right, but there's still no substitute for running directly from source code.

print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
 - apotheon
CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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Re^4: Perl 6... do we need another vm?
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Sep 05, 2006 at 08:10 UTC
    That's a comforting thought, and I suspect you're right, but there's still no substitute for running directly from source code.

    You seem to think that it's going to be a common occurrence for the byte code to be shipped separately from the source. Personally I doubt that will happen much.

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      Why do you doubt that? I'm curious. I, for one, don't see any reason to doubt that people will be shipping Perl programs in bytecode form without source code.

      Of course CPAN modules will (I would think) be universally available as source code, but there are many other ways to distribute software besides CPAN.

      print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
      		 - apotheon
      CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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        Why do you doubt that?

        Because I think that the vast majority of Perl code that gets distributed in the Perl world is going to be open source - which doesn't work without that whole "source" thang :-)

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