RE: Trend towards platform specific languages

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I'm not sure exactly what that
list is, Mike.  It looks like a typical list of technologies that
Microsoft has adapted for their own purposes.  For example, Microsoft
had little to do with the invention of Bayesian filters or their initial
implementation for email filtering.  In fact, it took them many years to
actually implement the techniques in Outlook.

At the same time, they DID attempt to patent said implementation even
though it was largely based on open source efforts predating the
Microsoft's invovlement.  This is another Microsoft technique:
steal^H^H^H^H^Hadapt and patent.  (Bayesian logic, on the other hand,
was invented in the 18th century--not even Bill would try to take credit
for that. <g>)

Joe

> From: Michael Jacobsen
> 
> Surely you would count some of these as innovations:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/am6x8