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Perhaps, but this patent (https://www.google.com/patents/US8407580 https://www.google.com/patents/US8407580) and a history of litigation (e.g. (http://bactra.or
by scw 11y ago
Perhaps, but this patent (https://www.google.com/patents/US8407580 https://www.google.com/patents/US8407580) and a history of litigation (e.g. (http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/ http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/) may be enough of a barrier to prevent its adoption.
- jacobolus 11y agoThat patent is about a user interface for hiding/showing the code that creates particular rendered outputs, not for the general idea of a “notebook” UI. I suspect there’s prior art (Hypercard? every spreadsheet ever? this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_graphical_user_interface_builders_and_rapid_application_development_tools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_graphical_user_interfa... ?), and the patent seems pretty obvious, but in any event, I don’t think other “code notebook” implementations are currently infringing this patent, and it seems relatively straightforward to work around.