I was wanting to make a scripting language for one of my projects however interpreting it on the fly would be way too slow. Unfortunantly generating bytecode doesn't work out too well either because BYOND can't read any binary files with a 0 in it. So of course the solution is to encode it in some text format. My scripting language is far from done but if anyone needs to be able to handle binary files you can simply encode them and read them into a list of bytes with this. Though you'll have to encode the file outside of BYOND since you'll run into the issue of not being able to read anything with nulls :P.

The file is one of my hosted files but if you can't find that here's another link :P. http://members.byond.com/Theodis/files/uuencode_src.zip