joebloggs wrote:I think you've missed his point Wayne,
He's asking whether you can produce stand alone executable binaries with wolfram (is it a compiled language?) or whether wolfram is in fact a scripting language that needs a specific application to be useful (wolfram-engine runs the script?).
I thought I covered that with my first sentence "It is a program."
The only reason to have it as an executable would be to feed it different datasets, essentially doing all the processing each time it is executed, the core purpose of the program.
The errata was to counter a potential future question about bundling everything together. Because it is a program (in the way it was previously used in this thread) any attempt to distribute a standalone executable would implicitly require distribution of copyrighted material short of wolfram including that feature specifically to do this. AFAIK there is no such feature.
The additional paragraph about building a clone was to reinforce that it is not going to be a trivial program to have the flexibility.
Does this clear things up for you?