2006/9/29, Boyko Bantchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 9/29/06, Devon McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All sorts of other languages allow you to hand off a single executable.
Except, of course, the tens of interpreted languages in use today.
It is to be noted that not only these languages are in huge demand
now, but more and more keep emerging each year.
Well, python offers handing-off-a-single-executable (not a standard
way yet but I think it's on the way), ruby has it, too, and I suspect
perl has it as well.
In most cases, the lack of possibility to create autonomous execs is
not a problem, because the users have the interpreters on their systems
already, or is very easy to get and install them.
I mostly agree but... When you are distributing a software to millions
of people and want its interpreter system to be hided from the
users(they wouldn't want to install Python in order to upload their
photos to the web, for example -- most of them wouldn't know what that
snake is), then you need a different approach.
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