[REBOL] Will REBOL/View be commercial? Re:(2)
From: rebol:techscribe at: 21-Sep-2000 21:34
Hi Geo,
Oberon 3: http://caesar.ics.uci.edu/oberon/
Juice: http://caesar.ics.uci.edu/juice/
At 06:44 PM 9/21/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Elan,
>
>Would you give us some pointers re: Oberon 3 and Juice. I know
>where Oberon-2 is but not Oberon 3. Just curious.
>
>Thanks
>Geo...
>
>[rebol--techscribe--com] wrote:
>> As a later step, once REBOL/View has been broadly accepted, I do see a
>> market for a REBOL/View pcode (bytecode, or slim binaries (Oberon 3,
>> Juice)) type engine. Commercial developers who want to protect their
>> scripts from prying eyes will purchase a REBOL/View compiler that generates
>> slim binary runtimables. The freely available REBOL/View interpreter will
>> include an engine that interprets the slim binary scripts. Developers who
>> are willing to share their scripts by deploying their application in REBOL
>> source code do not need to pay anything to be able to do that. They are
>> making REBOL more useful. Commercial developers who want to protect their
>> source code and take advantage of somewhat faster execution speed (slim
>> binaries are almost as fast as native compiled code, see Oberon 3) will be
>> willing to pay for technology that will convert their source code files.
>
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