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From: kushmer@bnlux0.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Doubts on TP 6.0 updatating being worth the while
Message-ID: <2403@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Date: 10 Jan 91 22:45:14 GMT
References: <19416@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Jan9.194840.18614@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Jan10.063046.9686@uwasa.fi>
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In article <1991Jan10.063046.9686@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>In article <1991Jan9.194840.18614@en.ecn.purdue.edu> newlin@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Captain Kludge) writes:
>:
>>   One issue that hasn't been mentioned is the fact that Borland has
...
>
>Fair enough.  And what this also means is that 6.0 should be after
>all be considered an just intermediate version and we can expect in
>line the 5th upgrade with incompatible units.  Why didn't they make
>it Windows right away.  Borland's upgrading tactics is beginning to
>raise some aggravation, even for a TP fan, isn't it?


It seems a bit like there is a split personality working there at Borland 
Central.

Would the same brain that decided to include source level assembler in the 
pascal compiler -a logical and excellent progression from inline- also decide
to burdon the users with Vision, the new layout of the editor, no simple color
scheme for monochrome monitors etcetera?

Today I got a letter from borland pushing the spread sheet, Quattro, for $95,
thats 400 dollars off of the list price. Now we all know that  list prices
are a fraud to begin with. But for the manufacturer to sell something for 
25% of the list price seems absurd. Who prey tell did the market study that 
concluded that the list price should be so high?

I still like borland, but sometimes they make me wonder.

-- 
Chris Kushmerick
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