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- From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Subject: Re: ACK ANSI Compiler
- Keywords: ACK, ANSI, compiler
- Message-ID: <C0A7y8.ILD@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 14:22:55 GMT
- References: <1i5nm6INN40n@werple.apana.org.au>
- Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
- Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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- In article <1i5nm6INN40n@werple.apana.org.au> hock@werple.apana.org.au (Warwick Hockley) writes:
- >I think the main point is that most people feel that the 3 compilers should
- >be unbundled, and the price for each reduced appropriately.
-
- That doesn't work out economically. If we were to remove the Modula and Pascal
- front ends, the amount of stuff on the distribution disk would only decrease
- slightly, and the number of disks required wouldn't change at all. The amount
- of overhead in processing the order wouldn't change, nor would the shipping
- cost. In effect, we threw in the Pascal and Modula front ends for free.
-
- And for the n-th time, although using an ANSI compiler is definitely the way of
- the future, I have gone to great effort to continue to support the old compiler
- so you do not have to get the new one.
-
- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
-