Excel Formulae in Python ;-)
Piet van Oostrum
piet at cs.uu.nl
Fri Jun 19 07:32:10 EDT 2009
>>>>> Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> (CW) wrote:
>CW> Piet van Oostrum wrote:
>>>>>>>> John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> (JM) wrote:
>>>
>JM> [1] No kidding: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=QMwnAAAAEBAJ
>>>
>>> Apart from these patents probably being silly, why don't they just write
>>> the code in Python? :=)
>CW> Would be cool, but there are things like
>CW> Resolver One (http://www.resolversystems.com/product/)
>CW> and
>CW> DiscoveryScript (http://www.xefion.com/en/discoveryscript.html)
>CW> ...that help.
Actually, I meant writing the patent application in Python :=) instead
of this pseudo-exact legalese with goto instructions for the control
flow.
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Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.uu.nl>
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