Re: OT: Linked lists

2007-03-20 Thread Daniel Feiglin
I also checked. Not a banal linked list? Of course it is! I got out my old copy of "Data Types and Structures", Gotleib & Gotleib, 1978, ISBN 0-13-197095-X. See pp 97. And the up-coming "in thing" was B-Trees. What's the big deal in maintaining more than one link chain, whether single or doubly

Re: OT: Linked lists

2007-03-20 Thread guy keren
for y'all this might be a joke. i currently work for that company :0 try to imagine what i feel about this ;) --guy "i diss-associate myself from any patents on structures less advanced then Fibonacci heaps" Oron Peled wrote: On Tuesday, 20 בMarch 2007 13:05, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: This

Re: OT: Linked lists

2007-03-20 Thread Oron Peled
On Tuesday, 20 בMarch 2007 13:05, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > This isn't a banal linked list ROTFL. Ok, you made me go to my old bookshelf: "Data Structures and Algorithms, by Aho Hopcroft and Ullman" ISBN 0-201-00023-7 (my copy was printed on January, 1983) Starting on page 147: "Multili

Re: OT: Linked lists

2007-03-20 Thread Peter
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Daniel Feiglin 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 runn

Re: OT: Linked lists

2007-03-20 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
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=Szh4EBAJ&dq=7028

OT: Linked lists

2007-03-20 Thread Daniel Feiglin
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 cod