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From: drew@sdeggo.UUCP (Drew Dean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac
Subject: LS Pascal 2.0 Update price
Keywords: $50 ???
Message-ID: <232@sdeggo.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 88 06:22:58 GMT
Organization: Lazy Programmer's Society of San Diego
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First: I'm a registered owner of LS Pascal 1.00.  When I bought it last
October, the dealer didn't have 1.11, yet, but a friend gave me the update
file that had been posted on CompuServe.  Ok, I'm happy:  good compiler,
useful update....Now comes LS Pascal 2.0..... I have not received any info
from Think or Symantec yet, and when I called earlier this week, I was told
it would ship in September, all registered owners would receive a letter in
late August, and it would cost $50.  $50!  This is for a product that
MacConnection is selling (last time I looked) for $65 !  I bet if I order it
from MacConnection as soon as they get it, I'll get it faster than paying
Think to update my old one, (assuming my experiences with other software
hold true, maybe Think has a wonderful policy-- those who update get their
updates BEFORE the product ships, but if they do, there the only ones...)
I am also upset because Think has let the libraries slip into a nearly
useless state if you're trying to work with Volume 5 stuff.  
	Think also advertises Object Pascal support as being now, and in the
	next sentence says ability to compile MacApp coming soon !  What
	kind of Object Pascal support is that ?  Sounds just about as useful
	as the "Object Pascal" support in the old TML compiler.....
Gees...$70 buys me the new TML compiler which they CLAIM will compile MacApp
(has anyone tested this ?), with the MPW shell (needed to run SemperSoft
Modula-2 [the language I REALLY perfer]), and it's shipping now (or so I'm
led to believe, then again it may not be...)

Come on, Think...your updates used to be free, but after your acquisition by
Symantec, things seem to be changing....Why I remember I few short months
ago the updates for LS C 2.13 & 2.15 coming over comp.binaries.mac....

To all those who are going to accuse me of mindless Think bashing:
    I'm not--if I can get a good price on LS C 3.0 tomorrow, I'm going to
    buy it, else I'll order it from MacConnection Monday.


Drew Dean
drew@sdeggo.UUCP
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