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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.zanker.org!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder.news-service.com!post.news-service.com!news1.surfino.com!not-for-mail Message-Id: <7667165.GqKDo3prvz@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: Ada syntax patents Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Reply-To: martin@krischik.com Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:44:55 +0100 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> Organization: None User-Agent: KNode/0.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@surfino.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.169.175.19 (83.169.175.19) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:00:54 +0100 X-Trace: 5f21b421c7e86f60c0ab604701 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8473 Date: 2005-02-23T13:44:55+01:00 List-Id: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler wrote: > Georg Bauhaus wrote: > >> Given that Ada the language is an ISO standard, I think the >> compiler producers won't claim anything, or will they? > > Well, perhaps they should claim that there is no compiler involved at > all. At least not an optimizing one: > > But FORTRAN (the very first one from 1954) was an optimising compiler! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran. But then, sombody managed to patent wheel-barrow a few years ago. Again: Thank you Polan for your veto (http://thankpoland.info). Only they have another go at it :-( . Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com