Octavian Râsnita wrote: > The actual perl programmers are not important, because they already have > their reasons for using perl. > Are you saying that nobody uses Zend Encoder because PHP also runs using > an interpreter?
I'm changing the topic of your discussion because it's gone tangent to the subject... Business people love the idea of their intellectual property (IP) being protected by way of code encryption. Try telling them their money-making code is 'in the open, but everyone's doing it too'. Not exactly a warm fuzzy feeling. This topic has been resurfaced from time to time. I think the bottom line is: there is no supported form of code encryption for Perl. Some people try to partially compile the code into bytecode, and distribute with that. But I don't think it's officially supported. The forward step in this may lie with Perl6. Unfortunately while Parrot 1.0 has JUST been launched, Perl6 isn't, and it'd take quite a while before we get there. It's still NOT encoded, just compiled into a more cryptic form, just like Java and the rest.
