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From: dcourte@thor.wright.edu (Dale Emery Courte,040P Lib. Annex,873-4030,)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: 3rd Party Compilers
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Date: 22 Sep 89 13:46:44 GMT
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From article <213200001@s.cs.uiuc.edu>, by schoenin@s.cs.uiuc.edu:
> 
> Our research group is interested in locating low-cost compilers for 
> PASCAL and FORTRAN.  Encore's price, even with an educational discount,
> is a steep $3,750 each.  At these prices that makes a source license
> out of the question for us.  Are there any 3rd party compilers available ?
> Are they any good ?  

What gives here? I have a quote from Encore in front of me, and the
price for Fortran is an unbelievable $12,500! I was told not to expect an
educational discount of more than 25% on this. Does anyone know what the
_real_ price of Fortran is? At the price I was quoted, it is simply out
of the question.

> 
> Alternatively, how good are the Encore compilers ?  Are they so good
> it might justify the cost ?

I have experience here with Encore's parallel implementation of VADS
Ada, and my Ada users tell me it far outperforms the VADS
implementations on SUN systems here on campus. I have heard from at
least one user elsewhere that the Fortran compiler is also quite a 
performer. It is probably worth the price you were quoted, but not the 
one I was quoted.

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