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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: Re^2: $$$ & THINK Pascal 3.0
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Date: 21 Mar 90 21:43:18 GMT
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In article <12799@eagle.wesleyan.edu> bparsia@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:

>But Rich, we do. That was the point of my orginal (and subsequent posts). We
>*have* to pay for TCl. It's true, one does get it when one pays for it, but I,
>for one, don't want it (yet). But I *do* want the nifty procedural stuff you
>mentioned, plus the other ones mentioned in the press release. I want a THINK
>Pascal 3.0 lite.

	If you find that the upgrade we're offering doesn't suit your needs,
it is fully within your rights to not purchase the upgrade, or to save your
pennies until such a time as your needs require the new version.

>> 	Pascal 2.0 is completely superseded by Pascal 3.0; it's not common
>> practice in the software industry to keep selling old versions after a new
>> release has been made.
>
>True, but it is common practice to have low-end and high-end (super developer,
>power user, I-want-every-bell-and-I'll-use-them-all-and-still-not-be-happy)

	It is? Can you give me some examples? I'm not aware of Aldus offering a
low-end PageMaker or Freehand, or Adobe offering a low-end Illustrator, or
Acius offering a mini-database. It's quite true that there are low-end 
drawing programs or page-layout programs or databases, but they're rarely
offered by the same company that makes the high-end analogs.

	For someone in your particular position (a college student with
limited funds), you should definitely contact your school's bookstore,
or whatever campus organization is responsible for selling hardware and
software, and see if they carry THINK Pascal. Our educational discounts
are quite competitive, and you may find that with whatever local price is
being offered, it may be within your means to purchase THINK Pascal.

R.


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