Talk:Herb Sutter

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Herb Sutter is my uncle! He is a real cool guy. Keep reading his books!

Will do... actually his website has awesome info as well for those curious :) RN 12:53, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Patent controversy

Sutter's name is on US Patent 7496889, "Whitespace Keywords". On reading this document, there are countless nonsensical statements (the whole premise of keywords with a space in them is trivial). At one point it goes into

(LAN) and wide-area networks (WAN). LAN technologies include Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), Copper Distributed Data Interface (CDDI), Ethernet, Token Ring and the like. WANtechnologies include, but are not limited to, point-to-point links, circuit switching networks like Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN) and variations thereon, packet switching networks, and Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL).

Any compiler developer would write this work off, but the article suggests some pre-eminence. What's the deal? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.142.179.118 (talk) 04:23, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Patent controversy continued

If I remember correctly. In the process of developing Microsoft's variant of Visual Basic they had a problem of making it compatible with existing implementations due to a (as I remember it) keyword and a patent. Microsoft could not make the languages compatible. I am sure someone knows more about it and can correct my wrongs. I think it is something similar we see whith this patent. Here Microsoft are trying to protect their Common Language Runtime (CLR) (or C++ .NET) from being copied. That no one should be able to make a system compatible to the .NET C++ version of Microsoft. That's at least my theory.