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From: bparsia@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re^2: $$$ & THINK Pascal 3.0
Message-ID: <12457@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 90 12:09:53 GMT
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In article <1443@uc.msc.umn.edu>, ken@wj.msc.umn.edu (Ken Chin-Purcell) writes:
> In article <12004@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, 
>   bparsia@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>> The "improvements" to THINK Pascal sound nice, 
>> but the upgrade price is a little steep.
> 
> My reaction was just the opposite.  For $69 I promptly 
> received five disks and three manuals, providing me with
> a complete object programming environment.  Given the
> cost of good Macintosh programmers and tech writers, 
> packaging, advertising, support and overhead, I
> think Symantec's upgrade price is very reasonable.
> 
> \/  Ken Chin-Purcell
> <>  also known as ken@msc.umn.edu and (612)626-1340
> /\  Minnesota Supercomputer Center, University of Minnesota


If you read the rest of my post, what I said was that the price was steep for
those of us who want *some* of the new functionality (such as the Rez/DeRez
resource utilities), but otherwise, I would agree with you (just from comparing the
price of the TCL upgrade with purchasing MacApp).

I think for the full upgrade, Symantec's price is *most* reasonable. I just
wish there was a low-end (and cheap) way of getting *some* of the upgrade.
After all, there have been people (reviewers and others) who have argued that
Symantic needed to beef up its support for resource creation and editing, and
since *they* (to my knowledge) did not create their new editors, but instead
licensed it from Apple, I don't *believe* (though I could be wrong) that the
cost of adding them was that steep.

In summary: for the Class library, charge away. I think Symantec has a more
than fair and reasonable price. For those interested in small-time
experimentation and procedural programming and just learning, the price is too
high. Whether Symantic cares is their own problem. I'm just pointing out that
there is a market (of at least 1), and that maybe they should consider it.


Bijan J. Parsia