Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> It's... encouraging to know that I accidentally managed to get so much
> >> nearly right.
> >
> > Well, algorithmic ideas for many problems are almost always intuitive and
> > straightforward enough and only implementations differ.
>
> Which is why software patents shouldn't exist.

Indeed.  You know using xor for operations on screen was once patented, don't
you? :P

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