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2004-11-19-gpdj

CREATED BY chris • LAST EDITED BY chris 7307 days AGO

What a wonderful invention: The IS NOT OPERATOR. Congratulations, Paul Vick, Corneliu Barsan and Amanda Silver, congratulations, Microsoft.

I hereby retract all criticism of software patents ever expressed; such devices of beauty, such machineries of unquestionable elegance like the IS NOT OPERATOR must be protected by every means possible. Probably only select members of the Visual Basic team can fathom enough creative power—as demonstrated quite forcefully by this patent application—to imagine the impeding evils, should such stunning inventions fall into the wrong hands (like the dirty ones of those source-sharing code communists).

I hope we'll see many more inventions like that streaming forth from that fount of imaginativeness at Redmond—just imagine how much easier life would be with the awesome power of, say, the IS OPERATOR!