As to patenting compilers, OS, and languages, that is why "C" has become the "standard", ugly as it is. It could be obtained by universities for free, so that is what everyone is learning before they have to do real work.
What good is a language on the internet that has no real string data type or either fixed or varying length and you have to look at every byte in the string see if its the end or not, where you have to append a fake "while" (and an unnecessary test) to get a simple "do" group, and call by name forces unusually cryptic argument lists of pointers? Add to that the obfuscations of C++, and what do you get? Even if its free, should be still be programming as if we were on a pdp 4? ===== Jim Sibley Implementor of Linux on zSeries in the beautiful Silicon Valley "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
