From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Easiest way to build Qt/Gtk interfaces for Ada programs
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:26:40 +0100
Date: 2012-12-29T14:26:40+01:00 [thread overview]
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Le Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:07:28 +0100, Georg Bauhaus
<rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> a écrit:
> Note that, in the US, using the specimen called MapReduce
> incurs the cost of at least FUD via patent number 7,650,331.
> Is the Paraffin library for Ada covered?
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/01/googles-mapreduce-patent-what-does-it-mean-for-hadoop/
The paper says:
> "Map" and "reduce" are functional programming primitives
> that have been used in software development for decades.
And its name even comes from there. Strange one can patent something
widely known for long (luckily, this patent is probably not valid in
Europe).
--
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University
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2012-12-28 14:51 Easiest way to build Qt/Gtk interfaces for Ada programs alb348
2012-12-28 15:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-12-28 17:30 ` alb348
2012-12-28 17:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-12-29 0:18 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-12-29 9:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-12-29 10:39 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-12-29 12:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-12-29 13:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-12-29 13:26 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2012-12-29 13:09 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-12-29 0:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-12-29 1:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-12-29 2:10 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-12-29 8:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-12-28 16:20 ` Vadim Godunko
2012-12-28 19:56 ` alb348
2012-12-28 20:38 ` Justin Time
2012-12-28 20:52 ` alb348
2012-12-29 0:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-12-29 10:23 ` Blady
2012-12-29 10:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-12-29 15:24 ` Justin Time
2012-12-31 21:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-01-01 10:46 ` Justin Time
2013-01-01 12:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-01-01 16:55 ` Justin Time
2013-01-02 10:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-12-28 17:58 ` Justin Time
2012-12-31 8:07 ` ldries46
2012-12-31 20:58 ` John B. Matthews
2013-01-04 23:39 ` Brian Drummond
2012-12-29 16:40 ` leonid.dulman
2012-12-29 18:12 ` alb348
2012-12-30 17:27 ` leonid.dulman
2013-01-04 13:53 ` Patrick
2013-01-04 23:31 ` Brian Drummond
2013-01-05 8:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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