__/ [ William Poaster ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 11:25 \__
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:22:24 -0600, chrisv wrote:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>>>> I have just filed a patent for bubblesort. Something tells me I'm
>>>>> gonna be rich!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Get rich off a bubblesort? Not likely, it's about the slowest type of
>>>> sort there is.
>>>>
>>>> It's so bad that Microsoft are probably the only ones still using it.
>>>>
>>>> Think big, patent a shellsort or quicksort.
>>>
>>> ...Too complex to be used as hilarious patent examples.
>>
>> Has plonking been patented? If not, I want it. 8)
>
> LOL!
You're in the right newsgroup, too. Plenty of money to be made (or put
negatively -- "sucked in")...
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