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- From: yee@mipg.upenn.edu (Conway Yee)
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- Subject: Re: ACK ANSI Compiler
- Message-ID: <103840@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 17:09:58 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.163649.17110@udel.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan6.163649.17110@udel.edu>, henrik@husc.harvard.edu writes:
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- |> Yes, it's true that packaging could cost less than $200.
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- The cost of the ACK ANSI compiler.
-
- However, don't forget
- |> the time spent designing, debugging, etc.
-
- True.
-
- 1>Time spent in QA.
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- Questions and Answers? For ACK compilers? Nearly all support is on
- comp.os.minix! Nobody pays com readers for support.
-
- |>Time spent
- |> writing usable documentation.
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- What documentation? The K&R C compiler was never fully documented.
-
- |>Time spent bugfixing.
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- True. But I don't recall any compiler updates.
-
- |>All of these require
- |> good people. Good people cost money (and well they should - they need to
- |> eat, too).
-
- True but if Good People cost money, the Good Users should see some benefit
- from the generated bugfixes, documentation and support.
-
- The true reason for the $200 was recently (perhaps inadvertently) posted by
- ast. The company distributing the ACK ANSI compiler has a monopoly on it.
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