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|> Another claim of the patent in question is that it covers the merging of
|> one portion of one document with another document -- that is, the #include
|> statement in one document references not an entire file but just part of
|> the file.
|> 
|> In Software - Practice and Experience, Vol. 13, published in 1983,
|> submitted in June 1981, I published an article entitled "Assembly
|> Language as Object Code."
|> 
|> This paper includes a discussion of a USE statement (analogous to a C
|> #include statement), and it includes a specific discussion on pages
|> 721 and 722, illustrated by examples, of the use of USE statements to
|> include parts of one file in another.

Also as a source of 'prior art' is the language Ada. There was a MIL STD
released in 1983.  Ada does not use #includes but rather 'with' and 'use'
as a method of including files.  Just on the basis of what was written by 
Doug Jones, it really seems that the assignee of the patent--IBM--was using
Ada as a model for their patent.

	andy
	wessels@thor.cc.nd.edu