On 1/10/2000 at 7:00 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
{
I agree that the replacement DO as suggested by Andrew would not give
much security. Also agree
that having a way to protect a script will greatly help create a market
for REBOL programs.
}
Java and Perl seem to be doing all right. Not to mention Linux. And
HTML. Of course, there might be something to be said for a REBOL
virtual machine.
IMHO, to create a market for REBOL programs, we need significant
open-source projects showing what the language can do. Results is what
really matters. The vast majority of all software is still written
in-house, where no one cares if the source is closed or not. Commercial
products are few and far between. Of the people reading this list, how
many are paid to create software which is delivered for sale in
machine-readable form only?
But, back on thread -- what about a binary that decoded the script and
passed it to REBOL on standard input? Of course, someone could still
reverse-engineer the binary. (Which is to say that no software is
really secure!) The only real way, I guess, would be to deliver the
script from a Web server in real time over a secure connection. But
even then there might be temporary files some place.
-Ted.
