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From: gdunlap@ecst.csuchico.edu (RANXEROX)
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Subject: Re: Amiga Coupon Book -- input needed
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Date: 9 Dec 90 00:46:40 GMT
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     LANGUAGES!  LANGUAGES!  LANGUAGES!  LANGUAGES!  LANGUAGES!  

     As a college student majoring in Computer Science I can tell you that
a discount on various languages (especially C) would be MOST helpful!  I
really can't afford to fork out ~$200 for a C compiler; it'd be nice if I
could get a discount on one, though.
     Also - and most of you will probably hate this idea - a GOOD Pascal
compiler.  Yeah, yeah, I hate Pascal as much as the rest of you do, but
that doesn't change the fact that comp. sci. students are often REQUIRED
to write programs in Pascal.  I'd really prefer to do it on the Amiga, and
not have to use Turbo Pascal on the Pee Cee (or "pc" on UNIX).  I've tried
using MCC Pascal (Metacomco's version), but that thing SUCKS!  If Commodore
could bet Borland to port Turbo to the Amiga I think it'd help out a lot
of students; Borland gives students a pretty reasonable discount on Turbo,
but those of us who don't have - or want to use - Pee Cees, and find
Transformer too slow to tolerate, are S. O. L.
     I suppose the above would go for Fortran as well - the only Fortran
I'm aware of for the Amiga is A.C. Fortran, and I don't think it's been
updated for quite a while.  I personally have never had the need for a
Fortran on the Ami, but others might.
    Well, that's my $0.02.  Hope it's somehow helpful...


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