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- From: delacour@waxwing.parc.xerox.com (Vincent Delacour)
- Subject: Re: Common Lisp is a dpANS in Public Review
- In-Reply-To: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us's message of 21 Aug 92 16:34:03 GMT
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- Date: 21 Aug 92 15:19:43
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- In article <1992Aug21.163403.7918@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
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- >if one were to [put copies of the Lisp standard on CD-ROM], it should
- >probably include beaucoup other ANSI std dox also, for many other prog
- >languages ...
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- ANSI gets most of their revenue from selling their copyrighted standards
- documents, which cost about $50 each. So a CD-ROM with copies of 25
- standards would have to cost about $1000 to give them similar revenue.
-
- Perhaps not so true. Producing paper copies has a cost too, whereas
- duplicating CD-ROMs is very cheap. See for example the Oxford English
- Dictionary, which costs $3000 in paper, and $850 only on CD-ROM, with
- lots of extra functionalities.
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- [vd]
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