This isn't a banal linked list (I'm assuming somebody has done the job of understanding it for me): http://www.metacase.com/blogs/stevek/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3351846473
Here's the actual patent in a more sane form: http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT7028023&id=Szh4AAAAEBAJ&dq=7028023 In any case, this is wildly off-topic. On 3/20/07, Daniel Feiglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You have to see it to believe it: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7028023.html Hell! I thought that I invented linked lists (and doubly linked lists) in my very first programming assignment in 1971, using FORTRAN 4 on an IBM 7044 mf running $IBSYS. Darn! If I had only kept my box of source code punchcards ... Daniel
