Again first let me again say I am not a software but an electrical engineer
with an interest in good software. It occurs to me that adding encryption to
picolisp might be useful for safety if it allows running encrypted source code
files. I know of a Forth-like concatenative language called 8th (search
8th-dev) which has such encryption built-in, but it is not open-source but is a
paid software.
From another practical point of view, instead of encryption even bytecode
compilation would be satisfactory, not for reasons of speed but for security
that the application code file cannot be tampered with as easily as with a text
code file.
For example in a research lab, a scientist could pass off bytecode file to
subordinates without being worried about inadvertent or intentional alteration
in it.
I would appreciate any thoughts on this.
BR,
SJain
-------- Original Message --------
From: SJain <z...@ymail.com>
Sent: 21 May 2021 10:13:21 PM IST
To: LANG picoLisp <picolisp@software-lab.de>
Subject: strong language for blockchain
There was a mail regarding picoLisp for blockchain. I am No expert in
software, but I would have thought a compiled language with encryption, with
full source code available, would be a more secure application than a
interpreted language, requiring source code in readable and writable text file,
such as picoLisp, despite all it's charm.
I would appreciate any thoughts on this.
Regards,
SJain
India
