Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!psueea!parsely!sopwith!snoopy From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license. (Re: increasing yacc states) Message-ID: <275@sopwith.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 02:37:19 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <26947@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5524@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm Lines: 34 In article <5524@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: |In article <26947@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes: |How much did your computer cost? About $2,000, I'd guess, would be average |for a personal computer. Less if you want to get a good one like an Amiga |instead of an IBM clone. But still, if you can afford that, you can afford |a few hundred dollars for a good C compiler, or a hundred or so for a Modula |compiler. So an Amiga is a "good" computer, but it can't run the software I want to run. Interesting definition of "good". | If you want to run GNUCC, your computer is going to cost a lot more. In the local newsgroups, a computer is being offered for sale for a suggested price of $1000, which will run gcc and friends. Gcc will generate faster code than the vender-supplied C compiler. | You can buy a lot of commercial software with the difference, I don't know of too much commercial software for sale for a negative amount of money. | and expect to get help when something goes wrong. You can NOT expect help from the vender when something goes wrong. _____ .-----. /_____\ Snoopy ./ RIP \. /_______\ qiclab!sopwith!snoopy | | |___| parsely!sopwith!snoopy | tekecs | |___| sun!nosun!illian!sopwith!snoopy |_________| "You made a woman meow?"