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From: mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: THINK Pascal 3.0 Press Re
Summary: Any hints on when we might hope to see this in C?
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Date: 19 Mar 90 19:16:03 GMT
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(Bunch of stuff about the THINK class browser deleted)

Not wanting you to give away company secrets, Rich (:-) ) but can you
give us C users an idea of when the equivalent upgrades might be made
to THINK C?

On the money thing, I must confess that I, too, find the upgrade price
for THINK Pascal rather too high to tempt me.  I own both Pascal (which
I bought originally, because I knew the language) and C (which I bought
when Pascal's typing proved too restrictive.)  Could Symantec consider
a further discount for us people who would like to have both environments,
but will not do so if they have to pay full price on both?

As a final note, one of the problems I remember with the last release
of THINK Pascal was that, in spite of promised object support, the
documentation was just not satisfactory to support this claim.  (In spite
of all the work I'm sure Symantec did put in on it.)  If my memory is
correct (and correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a long time since I've
even looked at the Pascal), this also strikes me as cause for complaint--
Symantec should not be charging that steep of an upgrade price to deliver
to users a feature they claimed for a previous version, when that previous
version, for most practical uses, did not support said feature.

'Nuff said.

Ken McDonald
mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca