Hi Andi, > > The only connection to Ron and xhb is that I've read the Harbour list > > and saw the function name hb_retc[len]Adopt() in one of the messages > > (on 2002. Jan 23) which sparked the idea of implementing these new API > > functions in Harbour, without ever knowing more than these two names, > > the idea is quite simple and logical, and ideas cannot be copyrighted. > > This is unfair IMO, you seem to hide under the condition "IDEA CANNOT BE > COPYRIGHTED" or are you declaring yourself a genius because you can > "implement" other's stuff into yours without taking a look and then > simply stated that it is a SIMPLE thing? :-)
> I am not trying to be rude but I simply feel this is unjust :-) Well, you can try to paint me anything, but one fact doesn't change: I didn't look into any xhb code, nor did I look into any implementation details, only these *two function names*. Maybe I'm a genius like you say, but I rather think we just came to the same conclusion, and implemented it in parallel. I bet that the idea of a lexical parser wasn't the idea of Ron, nor was FOR EACH a unique idea never implemented anywhere else in the world before. Same thing. Besides it isn't very complicated indeed, enough to look into the code (did you check it?), at least my implementation is. Anyway if I need to give credit to Ron for an xhb member posting the text "hb_retcAdopt()" to Harbour's developer list, I hereby give it to him. Thanks for *inspiring* hb_retc*_buffer(). BTW ideas can be *patented* AFAIK. Brgds, Viktor
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