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Subject: Re: Easiest way to build Qt/Gtk interfaces for Ada programs
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Le Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:07:28 +0100, Georg Bauhaus  =

<rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> a =C3=A9crit:
> 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).


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=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity