Microsoft Patents 'IsNot'

[Mike Meyer]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

> Neal D. Becker wrote:
>> Doesn't Python (along with probably every other language ever invented)
>> display prior art here?
>
> Wrt. claim 1, yes. Actually, C is prior art here: you have two
> expressions representing pointers, and you have a system where
> you can determine that the pointers refer to different memory
> locations.

LISP has had NEQ for about 40 years.

Can they actually get away with patenting the spelling of the
keywords in a language?

         <mike
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