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From: dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: TopSpeed C (and yes, I know where I'm posting!)
Keywords: Jensen&Partners Modula-2
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.205740.11396@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Jul 90 20:57:40 GMT
References: <7869@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Organization: AIR, Stanford University
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In article <7869@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
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>Jensen & Partners made a big deal about how the editor, debugger, and even
>parts of the libraries are shared among their languages.
>
>Now they send out an offer to pick up TopSpeed C at a discount of a measly
>20%. While I'm tempted to look at their C (although I'd really rather wait
>for their C++), with so much shared code I feel that 20% off is very skimpy.

    They're offering a discount now?  Dang!  I bought the extended edition
of the C compiler, and later the standard edition of Modula-2.  I called
and asked about discounts then, but they said they'd decided against them.
(I couldn't complain much, because my lab paid for the C and I got the M2 
at the educational price anyway).

>Now my question -- does anybody have both products (Modula-2 V2, and C)?
>In particular, would it be possible to buy just the "Standard Edition" of
>C, and have all of the advantages of "Extended Edition" (DDL, profiler)
>except for the source code?

    I think all I am missing is the M2 source files; all the other C
extended edition utilities will work with M2.  The other way around (std
C and ext M2) should be the same.  The overlap is nice, because the C
extended edition includes free updates to the system for a year - and
any improvements to the environment or code generator will help M2 as
well.  They really should give discounts for getting more than one
compiler, or more than one extended edition.  They could probably get
a lot of business that way, from people who see a chance to pick up
another language cheaply.

 -David Hinds
  dhinds@popserver.stanford.edu