From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Shared Generic Instance Code
Date: 1997/04/02
Date: 1997-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E80ry3.Epv@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.859987468@merv
In article <dewar.859987468@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>... There is also a problem of patents. DEC holds
>patents on the implementation of shared generics which make it less worth
>while to investigate this approach.
I'm not convinced it's a valid patent. There was a paper written by
Gary Bray at Intermetrics, which outlines essentially the same approach,
and, I believe, predates the DEC work by several years.
- Bob
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-04-01 0:00 Shared Generic Instance Code david scott gibson
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Joel VanLaven
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Bill Keen
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Bill Keen
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-04-06 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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