Microsoft Patents 'IsNot'

[mustafademirhan at gmail.com]

But it is approved :(

Peter Maas wrote:
> Skip Montanaro schrieb:
> >     >> My guess is Microsoft hopes to discourage Visual Basic
knock-offs.  Claim
> >     >> 2 clearly seems to restrict the scope to BASIC.
> >
> >     Neal> Doesn't Python (along with probably every other language
ever
> >     Neal> invented) display prior art here?
> >
> > Sure, but maybe there is no such prior art in the BASIC arena.
>
> Isnot is semantically equivalent to the inequality operator which is
> some hundred years old. I doubt that this can be an approved patent,
> even under the liberal patent US laws.
>
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