Microsoft Patents 'IsNot'

[Peter Maas]

Skip Montanaro schrieb:
>     >> My guess is Microsoft hopes to discourage Visual Basic knock-offs.  Claim
>     >> 2 clearly seems to restrict the scope to BASIC.
> 
>     Neal> Doesn't Python (along with probably every other language ever
>     Neal> invented) display prior art here?
> 
> Sure, but maybe there is no such prior art in the BASIC arena.

Isnot is semantically equivalent to the inequality operator which is
some hundred years old. I doubt that this can be an approved patent,
even under the liberal patent US laws.

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