You can certainly package the j interpreter together with your own
application, likely including a small shell or batch script to start the
former on the latter; the end-user experience need not have seams.
On Fri, 5 Aug 2022, Richard Donovan wrote:
Thank you Elijah for your interesting answer and ideas.
I guess the restricted portability prohibits J from being a mainstream
programming language?
As a retired IBM mainframe assembler programmer, I got used to being able to
easily export my ideas to similar sites so having to insist a possible new user
should instal J just to trial a system feels a bit inhibitive.
It seems to me that setting the system up as a web server is the way to go.
Thanks again
Richard Donovan
On 5 Aug 2022, at 23:22, Elijah Stone <elro...@elronnd.net> wrote:
You cannot; JE is a direct interpreter, and it does not produce objects.
That said, you are in luck: to most people who might want to discover your
methods, being written in j would be a greater hindrance than being written in
machine code.
Generally, obfuscation is somewhat fraught. If you send me a program, it will
always be possible for me to discover how that program operates. One
alternative is to not send anyone the program at all, but instead expose it as
a network service; this might be something to consider, though I have no idea
whether it makes sense for the system you have created.
In general, my experience is that license terms are respected: if you tell a
buyer 'I will sell this to you, but you may not peek inside it', they will not;
the threat of legal action should you find out they've done something they
shouldn't outweighs any potential competitive advantage. And again: if they
really want to figure out how it works, they will.
-E
On Fri, 5 Aug 2022, Richard Donovan wrote:
Hi
I have written a system in J that I believe would be of interest to commercial
companies.
If I wanted to achieve this, how could I export the object code to an
interested party without having to send the J source code and reveal my methods?
Thanks in advance
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