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- From: esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us (Eric S Johansson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Re: An Open ANSI Forth Implementation
- Message-ID: <7858012@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 06:16:38 GMT
- References: <3980.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
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- In article <3980.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us> ForthNet@willett.pgh.pa.us
- (ForthNet articles from GEnie) writes:
- > Category 10, Topic 41
- > Message 37 Wed Aug 12, 1992
- > E.RATHER [Elizabeth] at 00:56 EDT
- >
- > Regarding Bevan's point about Borland, AT&T et al "seeding the market" with
- > free software...please note that these are both large, wealthy and prestigious
- > organizations. They can afford to develop a highly polished system and give
- > it away in volume, and their offering will receive respect and interest
- > because of their prestige. These are IMHO the important elements: the money
- > to develop a polished product before there is a market, the money to manage
- > the introduction properly (whether that means giveaways orother types of
- > promotion), and the market clout/prestige to be listened to.
-
- I can't speak for borland but when at&t c++ (cfront) first came out it was a
- total Piece Of C**p that competed with free forths for the worst
- compiler implementation of the year award. on top of that you had to
- pay 2000$ for a source license for the privilage. Cfront retained its
- POC nature well past its 2.0 release which was the last one I used.
-
- your comments about the amount of effort it takes to generate a
- polished product is well taken.
-
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