[Info-vax] Ignorance promenade: On the nature of patching VMS

[Norm Raphael]

> On 12/17/13, JF Mezei<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 
> From a VMS engineering point of view, did it save engineers much time to
> produce recompiled images versus generating patch files ?
> 
> For me, it would be a no brainer that recompiling would be much faster.
> For for the likes of Hoff who could type in VAX object code in a text
> editor as fast as he could type C code, did it make a big difference ?

Actually (since this thread is a honeypot for stating-the-obvious), it's the 
testing after the patch/recompile that matters; making sure that all you 
intended happens, and that nothing you did not intend happens.
 
Norman F. Raphael
"Everything worthwhile eventually 
degenerates into real work." -Murphy