Microsoft Patents 'IsNot'

[Lenard Lindstrom]

Paul Robson <autismuk at autismuk.muralichucks.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:04:03 +0000, Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> 
> > Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> > 
> >> Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
> >> > So Delphi is definitely not BASIC-derived. It is BASIC-like in that various
> >> > basic dialects, including QBasic, came to support the structured programming
> >> > that Pascal was designed from the beginning to teach.
> >> 
> >> So it would be more accurate to say that those Basic
> >> dialects are, in those respects, Pascal-like...
> >> 
> > By saying Delphi is BASIC-like I just mean that many languages have come
> > to resemble each, having adopted many of the same features. But it was
> > definitely Basic that did most of the adopting. So yes, more precisely,
> > Basic has become more Pascal-like. I was just giving the patent applicants
> > a minor benefit of a doubt.
> 
> I believe the author of .NET is the bloke that designed Turbo Pascal, so
> it's hardly surprising :)

Is this Andreas Heiljberg which you mentioned in an earlier posting to
this thread?

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g:thl3163358907d&dq=&hl=en&lr=&selm=pan.2004.11.23.07.09.08.229463%40autismuk.muralichucks.freeserve.co.uk

Lenard Lindstrom
<len-l at telus.net>