Re: [Haskell-cafe] US Patent for the idea of using Haskell to implement UAX #9

2010-04-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On 16/04/10 19:59, Daniel Fischer wrote: Am Freitag 16 April 2010 20:50:25 schrieb Brian Hulley: revealed a link to a US Patent (7120900) for the idea of implementing the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UAX #9 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9) in Haskell, making use, as far as I can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] US Patent for the idea of using Haskell to implement UAX #9

2010-04-19 Thread Paul Johnson
This patent has zero practical impact. When the patent was written there was no Unicode support, so the implementation translates the input into lists of integers instead of lists of characters. Crucially this step was also written into all three independent claims (which are the only bit of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] US Patent for the idea of using Haskell to implement UAX #9

2010-04-17 Thread Brian Hulley
Daniel Fischer wrote: Am Freitag 16 April 2010 20:50:25 schrieb Brian Hulley: revealed a link to a US Patent (7120900) for the idea of implementing the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UAX #9 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9) in Haskell, making use, as far as I can tell, of nothing more than

Re: [Haskell-cafe] US Patent for the idea of using Haskell to implement UAX #9

2010-04-17 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Brian Hulley bri...@metamilk.com writes: The main problem for me is just the fact that the legal system in itself is, as Charles Dickens wrote in The Old Curiosity Shop (Chapter 37): ... an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable

[Haskell-cafe] US Patent for the idea of using Haskell to implement UAX #9

2010-04-16 Thread Brian Hulley
Hi everyone, It's been a long time since I last posted to this list since I'm currently working on something that is not directly Haskell-related, but it still relates to functional programming in general. Anyway imagine my surprise when an innocent search for some keywords (I can't remember

Re: [Haskell-cafe] US Patent for the idea of using Haskell to implement UAX #9

2010-04-16 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Freitag 16 April 2010 20:50:25 schrieb Brian Hulley: revealed a link to a US Patent (7120900) for the idea of implementing the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UAX #9 http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9) in Haskell, making use, as far as I can tell, of nothing more than the normal approach