From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,525be57bd7f45978 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada syntax patents Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:02:44 +0000 Message-ID: <30811444.BKCGrJs6PU@jellix.jlfencey.com> References: <421b581b$0$13221$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <1109148987.384389.187240@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <7720213.akB6FCcMrh@linux1.krischik.com> <421c60be$0$24926$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> <19124713.YEkBZdYGZl@jellix.jlfencey.com> <7667165.GqKDo3prvz@linux1.krischik.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net r/ybzUGNhxBDViyD6Lp4rQjPvEt/+bvXpg3KzbcaPMR0ut7h+P X-Phone: +41 62 961 13 52 X-Mood: Recovering from MDS[0]. X-Footnote-0: Monday Depression Syndrome Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8474 Date: 2005-02-23T14:02:44+00:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik wrote: > Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler wrote: > > > > But FORTRAN (the very first one from 1954) was an optimising compiler! Of course. > See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran. But then, sombody managed to > patent wheel-barrow a few years ago. Yeah, right. You wouldn't believe what sort of shit gets patented these days. ;-> > Again: Thank you Polan for your veto (http://thankpoland.info). Only > they have another go at it :-( . On the long run I think, it won't matter. They *will* push it through someday. They are politicians. :-( Vinzent. -- worst case: The wrong assumption there actually is one.