Excel Formulae in Python ;-)

Piet van Oostrum piet at cs.uu.nl
Fri Jun 19 07:32:10 EDT 2009


>>>>> Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> (CW) wrote:

>CW> Piet van Oostrum wrote:
>>>>>>>> John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> (JM) wrote:
>>> 
>JM> [1] No kidding: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=QMwnAAAAEBAJ
>>> 
>>> Apart from these patents probably being silly, why don't they just write
>>> the code in Python? :=)

>CW> Would be cool, but there are things like

>CW> Resolver One (http://www.resolversystems.com/product/)

>CW> and

>CW> DiscoveryScript (http://www.xefion.com/en/discoveryscript.html)

>CW> ...that help.

Actually, I meant writing the patent application in Python :=) instead
of this pseudo-exact legalese with goto instructions for the control
flow. 
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Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
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