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From: carlton@bellatrix (Mike Carlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: THINK C 4.0 Press Release
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Date: 21 Jul 89 16:39:16 GMT
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You had to know the questions would follow this announcement :-)

In article <2253@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) writes:
>Following is the text of the press release announcing THINK C version 4.0.
>
...
>Additional new features in 4.0 include full standard ANSI libraries
>and enhanced ANSI language conformance for writing portable code.
     ^^^^^^^^
How ANSI is it?  Can I write new style function headers yet?  

>Other enhancements in code resource support make it easier to develop
>resources and give the option to write multi-segment resources. The
>advanced in-line assembler now supports instructions for the 68020
>and 68881, and includes new optimizations for more efficient code.
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"New optimizations"?  I never saw any old optimizations.  Can you tell 
us what optimizations are performed?
...
>The suggested retail price of THINK C version 4.0 is $249. Registered
>owners can upgrade to version 4.0 for $69 plus shipping and handling.
>The product and upgrade will ship early in August, and upgrade order

Seems like LSC is getting more and more expensive.  But I guess I'll keep 
upgrading as long as the new "goodies" are worth it.
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