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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ pricing for AT&T Release 2.0, and 386 binaries
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Date: 13 Jul 89 17:09:17 GMT
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Seems like we're going to have some people using 2.0, and a lot of people
using 1.2 for most of the next year, at least.  And some people are going to
be stuck indefinately on 1.2, because they're on an unusual machine that
doesn't get vendor support.  I hate to see people who have been loyal early
supporters of C++ get stuck like this.  And I hate to see bus bandwidth
tied up indefinately in 1.2 vs 2.0 issues.  Too bad, 'cuz it seems the 2.0
version of the language is much nicer.  I continue to believe the pricing
issue will be a C++ lock-out for many many people.  I believe people have
come to expect software upgrade costs of maybe $100, or 20% of the original
purchase cost.  Not tens of thousands of dollars.  I think this represents
a big setback for the C++ community.  I guess I would have expected this
of an ObjC, or an Eiffel.