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Not AgainNot AgainPosted Apr 17, 2012 6:05 UTC (Tue) by juliank (subscriber, #45896)In reply to: Not Again by brianomahoney Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)
> If ORACLE win at trial Java is DEAD
If they win the patent stuff, then maybe. If they win that copyright argument, then Oracle is dead, and almost every programming language.
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Not Again Posted Apr 17, 2012 22:39 UTC (Tue) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
If it gets to the point where we have to start using non-words for API function names, named constants, etc, all to avoid copyright problems, then pre-processors are going to become essential.
Not Again Posted Apr 18, 2012 15:43 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Then makers of competing preprocessors would quickly get sued, and so on.
Not Again Posted Apr 18, 2012 16:18 UTC (Wed) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
Not if the copyrighted API symbols were part of the input. We would all have to carry around keyword translation lists sewn into the liners of our jackets. This proposition is only slightly more absurd than Oracles actual claim.
Not Again Posted Apr 18, 2012 16:50 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Ah, back to the golden era of quilt-driven programming. Those were the days.
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