From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 7 14:05:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22404 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:05:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22379 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:05:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id PAA26292; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:04:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981007145657.04032220@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 15:01:26 -0600 To: Andre Oppermann , Mike Smith From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Microsoft has a patent on [] (fwd) Cc: Chuck Robey , FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <361BD3ED.2CADC2C4@pipeline.ch> References: <199810072042.NAA02254@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:49 PM 10/7/98 +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: >That sounds for me like VisualBasic... Which operates EXACTLY the same way as Perl, Lahey FORTRAN, MicroFocus COBOL, Java, many SNOBOL implementations, and the UCSD P-System (little used nowadays because the vendor that licensed it from the University of California has made the suicidal move of charging runtime royalties on programs compiled with it). Since the patent is clearly meant to apply to VB, it applies to all of these other languages too. In fact, it applies to ANYTHING that tokenizes and/or compiles to an intermediate code prior to runtime. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message