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From: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: $$$ & THINK Pascal 3.0
Message-ID: <172@farcomp.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 90 00:31:44 GMT
References: <12004@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <2277@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar)
Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Berkeley, CA
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In article <2277@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) 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.
> [more deleted]
>
>By way of justification:
[ eloquent justification deleted (in the interest of brevity)
  but here are some of Rich's justifications for the cost (read the original
  for all the details)
  - development costs
  - duplication costs (two more disks)
  - packaging 
  - new documentation
  - cost of phone support
  - positioning of THINK Pascal as a professional tool
  - etc.
]

This is all well and good Rich, but you didn't address a suggestion
made by a previous poster that the Class Library be unbundled.  Not 
everyone needs or wants the class library.  It seems that you could
spin the library off as another product and price it so that the 
price of the library and THINK Pascal would be greater than the 
bundle is now ( to reflect separate packaging and promotion costs).

I have to say though, I felt that THINK Pascal 2.0 was a real 
bargain.  Slickest development environment this side of Smalltalk.
I only hope that THINK Pascal 3.0 is as cool (I'm sure it will be.)

Long live the auto-reformatter!!!


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