Re^4: What is your favourite Linux scripting or programming language?

patented by Microsoft years ago

How many years ago? (As in, "Has the patent on that bad idea expired yet?")

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Re^5: What is your favourite Linux scripting or programming language? by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 26, 2021 at 09:20 UTC
This article is from 2004 and was the first google hit for "microsoft patent xml script". We used XML a lot at work at that time and it was a hot topic for several weeks. `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]