Re: Microsoft Patents 'IsNot'

2004-12-12 Thread szuchymj
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All the VB fans I know have not experienced Delphi. They just don't > know what they are missing. I am sure there are people who actually > chose VB, but not any one I know. When I marvelled at VB myself, it was > back when I myself was unaware of Delphi/C++ Builder. I us

Re: Microsoft Patents 'IsNot'

2004-12-02 Thread johng2001
All the VB fans I know have not experienced Delphi. They just don't know what they are missing. I am sure there are people who actually chose VB, but not any one I know. When I marvelled at VB myself, it was back when I myself was unaware of Delphi/C++ Builder. I used to think C++ programming on Wi

Re: Microsoft Patents 'IsNot'

2004-11-30 Thread not [quite] more i squared
Terry Reedy wrote: To be, this 'patent' is so absurd that I initially had difficulty believing to to be real and not a joke. So did I - a trojan horse like Sokal's in 1996, but substituting Social Texts --> Patent Office Social Scientists --> Patent Lawyers Physicists --> Software Engineers -- htt