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

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=trueentry=3351846473 Here's the actual patent in a more sane form:

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 running

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: Multilist

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