In message <199801231558.KAA16599@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>, Ken Hornstein write
s:
[i said...]
>>I never lose my source...

>But other people do; what happens if you try debugging a program that
>was written by a long-gone programmer and nobody knows what happened
>to the source code?

Reverse engineering....

>This happened at our site ... it was pretty painful.  Admittedly, this
>is sort of a larger problem that whether or not to use perl ... and in
>this case, we couldn't have used perl for this particular program
>anyway :-)

Yeah, this is true...

The best defense is a good offense; I publish my code on the www.

-s