Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

[Java News Collector]

At 12:06 PM 12/7/98 -0600, Justin Lee wrote:
>Ernst de Haan wrote:
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>Yet, surely the concept of portable code can't be contained within that
patent.
>Portable, interpreted code has been around far longer than that patent.
For an
>example, pick any form of BASIC.  Isn't Java just another multiplatform
>interpreted language?  The only difference is the source code is compiled
into a
>binary format rather than the engligh-esque nature of other intrepreted
>languages.

Not even that.  BASIC tokenized its "executable" before writing it to disk.

Douglas Toltzman