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- From: hock@werple.apana.org.au (Warwick Hockley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: ACK ANSI Compiler
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 14:48:22 +1100
- Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
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- Message-ID: <1i5nm6INN40n@werple.apana.org.au>
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- Summary: About the ACK ANSI compiler... [not the
- Keywords: ACK, ANSI, compiler
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- I think the main point is that most people feel that the 3 compilers should
- be unbundled, and the price for each reduced appropriately.
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- Speaking for non-US users, I'd like to make the point that with our debased
- A$, I or any other Australian would have to pay about A$300 (and probably
- more) for a package, two-thirds of which I certainly don't want, and moreover,
- will never want. If the 3 compilers were unbundled and sold at say, US$60
- each, then even a guy on superannuation like myself could afford to buy the
- C compiler. At the present time, only residents of those countries who have
- a favorable US dollar exchange rate can really afford the package, and that
- probably means only our Japanese friends ! (Hi, tomodachi ! Migi ya hidari
- no danna-sama.... Aware na mono ni o-megumii o-doozo !)
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- How about it, ast ? Can anything be done ?
-
- hock (hock@werple.apana.org.au)
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