Re: [FYI] Java violates US patent?

[Alex Pozgaj]

Java News Collector wrote:
> 
> At 12:06 PM 12/7/98 -0600, Justin Lee wrote:
> >Ernst de Haan wrote:
> --- snip ---
> >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.

Just a minor nit-pick: not every implementation did that.

Let me guess... you too are comming from the Sinclair world, aren't you?
:-)


Cheers, alex.
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