With scripts, you can see what you are getting.

You haven't been looking at the obfu section of this site much lately, have you? :)

Seriously, given that perl offers run-time eval and a very powerful regex language with side-effects, you have to have just about the same amount of trust in the person that hands you 1000 lines of perl code as you need in 100k of executable.

Either one could do totally unexpected things without you being able to tell by inspection.

I'm not saying "scripting languages bad"; what I am saying is that the source being in front of you doesn't mean much.

And as processor speeds increase, the delay caused by script compiling is becoming negligible.

There are many areas where that's just not true. A lot of programming problems have time constraints, where if the answer is late it's just about worthless. And those constraints often get tighter just as fast as processor speeds increase.


Mike

In reply to Re: Re: On Scripting versus Compiled solutions by RMGir
in thread On Scripting versus Compiled solutions by clintp

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