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One thing missing in this discussion is that if I write a commercial application in Perl, how do I sell it without exposing the code?

I was asked about it in my company when I wanted to write a tool. Even though we gave the tool to our customer, we did not sell it.

May be there is a way and I do not know it. I thought compiling it to native code is not supported yet.

Here is a cool idea:

Why not write Sun's pet store project in Perl and bench mark it?

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