Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 14:08:13 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft has a patent on [] (fwd) Message-ID: <4.1.19981007140512.0405ad00@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810071549200.15656-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <4.1.19981007131127.041747f0@mail.lariat.org>
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At 03:52 PM 10/7/98 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >So that includes awk, perl, tcl, .... and almost anything constructive I >might want to do with the [] operator in C++. It wouldn't include C++, but would include Perl, SNOBOL, BASIC, LISP.... In fact, it includes anything with late binding of function names, so that you can define a function during execution and then use its return value to subscript an array. >This is then just another example of software-patent insanity. The only >thing that gets me is that the damn thing is dated 1998. The insanity isn't confined to software patents. The Patent Office issues all kinds of ludicrous patents every year. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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