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
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 approac
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 t
Brian Hulley 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 for its pr
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Brian Hulley 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 re
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 tell,
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