[OT] Microsoft filled patent applications for scoped and immutable types

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/1/2014 1:39 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Apart from some pension fund managers who have serious long term goals,
> the problem can be laid fairly and squarely at the feet of traders and
> hedge funds. They have horizons of minutes or months rather than decades
> and so have no concerns about long term viability just short term
> profit. The obsession with quarterly returns and growth in such
> timescales is all the proof needed of the problem.

The high P/E ratios for companies like Amazon are the counterexamples where 
investors are clearly valuing long term potential over short term results.