Switch from perl to python?
Andrew Lusk
alusk at uiuc.edu
Sat Dec 14 00:25:37 EST 2002
Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:
> Nope. As you hinted at, there are a few "tricks" for obscuring the
> source, but in the end analysis, your customers will have access to the
> source. Same with Perl, no? If this is a show-stopper for you, best
> stick to compiled languages like C++.
Actually, if you embed the interpreter and call your python from C,
doesn't this keep your soruce code secret? In particular, if one
wanted to distribute a closed source GUI python application, one could
simply keep more of the logic in C and use python for the GUI
programming.
--Andrew
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