Woops!
I had no intention to flame or insult anyone/everyone, I'm just a capitalist pig looking for ways to rip people off by charging lots of money for code that should be free anyway (hehe, just kidding ;-) )
Thanks for letting me know it was in the FAQ (asking a question on PM is generally faster than reading through thousands of bytes of FAQ texts)
But wouldn't it be a great way for Perl to gain acceptance in the (99% closed source) Windows world? (I'm thinking that's why Java, C and whatever other languages are so popular: they're free, easy, powerful and commercially exploitable)
my two eurocents,
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Faster how?
Compare, say, 30 minutes of your time to 30 seconds of 500
people's time each. Which is faster?
Besides which, why should Perl care about gaining
acceptance among people who don't understand why it is
being given away in the first place? A lot of the people
who are giving away Perl don't mind if people producing
closed software find their stuff useful, but see no reason
to be helpful to that. Quite the contrary, if you want to
distribute obfuscated source then that is your problem and
you can do something about it if you care.
Now before you think that this is arrogant, rude, etc just
remember that this is donated effort. If you feel inclined
to help Perl be other than it is, you are free to do as
they do and donate a working solution. (In case you
didn't notice, I already gave you at least one hint
for how you might do that in another post. No you wouldn't
want to use that module, but the fact that it is possible
might give you cause to reflect.) Unless you are willing
to do that, then you don't really have much to complain
about in my books...
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No - I think that is terrible idea. If you want to hide
your code from others, then please stick to Java, C, or
Visual Basic.
Please leave my $Perl alone. It is perfectly fine, threads
would be nice, but nobody is perfect. I would
hate to see it turned into some user-friendly corporate
exploitable language.
One word: LAWYERS (/me shudders)
Jeff
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