Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato!canterbury.ac.nz!fore057
From: fore057@canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: PDC prolog gripe/question
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.155423.9467@canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 21 Oct 90 02:54:23 GMT
References: <90285.232430F0O@psuvm.psu.edu> <145400@kean.ucs.mun.ca>  <90293.102757F0O@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: University of Canterbury
Lines: 27

In article <90293.102757F0O@psuvm.psu.edu>, F0O@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>>I'd like to purchase the PDC Prolog professional user's guide, but I'm
>>a poor student (sob), and I'm afraid that A$350 is just too far to
>>stretch at the moment.
> 
>     Do I hear this right?  $350 dollars for *a book*?  Ye gadds, PDC must
> be crazy if they think many people are going to pay that kind of price for
> a book, or even 2 or 3.
>     If this is right, then I'd say PDC has an attitude problem.

To be fair to the PDC, the professional users guide comes with over 7000
lines of source code, on three disks.  Still, it would be nice to get the
promised information on overlay linking without having to shell out an
extra $350, especially as it would appear that purchase of a linker like
PLink86 or RTLink would also be required.

I guess we have to remember that PDC Prolog users are few (my serial number
is just under 3,500 for version 3.2, and I upgraded recently).  The PDC
developers have to eat somehow.  If I had the money to spend, I wouldn't
quibble.

Regards,
Euan

"Men might as well project a voyage to the moon as attempt to employ steam
across the stormy North Atlantic" - Address to the British Association, 1838