From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-04-14T23:50:33+09:00
Subject: RE: crypting ruby source

Hello --

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Mike Campbell wrote:

> > The reasons for doing this are obvious, $$.  You want to distribute
> > your work without anyone learning your secrets.  I think more folks
> > would use Ruby if it had this feature.
>
> not trying to sound smartassy here, but the lack of native support for that
> hasn't seemed to slow perl down.  (Or does it have that?)

This subject comes up sometimes on comp.lang.perl.misc (or at least it
used to), and not surprisingly, people point out the rather serious
irony that Perl itself is open-sourced.  The idea of encrypting Perl
or Ruby programs certainly strikes me as counter to the spirit of
those languages, and I'm glad there's no (easy) way to do it.  I don't
expect to convince anyone who disagrees to adopt this position, but I
think it's worth stating.


David

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