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A comment on Microsoft's 2003 patent application for the "Is Not" operator. Parent comment

Re:Microsoft's 2003 patent application for the "Is Not" oper... by Natsu on Thursday February 16, 2012 @01:43PM (#3600044)
Is it specific to a compiler? I wonder if Perl's "unless" is prior art. It's not surprising that this was from back in the day when people at the USPTO couldn't use the internet to research patents.
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