Author: Bo Persson
Date: 13:49:08 09/08/03
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On September 08, 2003 at 16:29:46, Frank Phillips wrote: >On September 08, 2003 at 15:54:56, Dan Andersson wrote: > >> Prices today are low compared to when I started programming. Especially when >>you factor in support and upgrades. I guess I have become used to the prices. >> >>MvH Dan Andersson > > >$1000 low. I am impressed, particularly if this just for a hobby. "Just" a hobby? Watch it! :-) I think the problem is that we oldies never payed the $1000 for the "start kit". I don't really remember that far back... I *do* remember paying about $300 for the upgrade in 1998. About $350 in 2002 and $29 this year. If you spread it out it is not that much per year, really. I have spent a lot more than that on the hardware it is running on. You can't do a cost/benefit analysis for a hobby. > >I am sure the MS compiler is great, but I thought the entry price would put it >beyond the reach of most hobby programmers, which I suppose is hardly surprising Maybe it is not really their target either. >- although I thought that years ago Borland compilers were less than 100, but >perhaps that was not for the optimising versions? That was for the "somewhat optimizing" version. :-) Their price got them a large market share, but no profits. That's a problem. Anders Hejlsberg, the original Turbo Pascal designer, now does C# for MS... > >Frank Bo Persson
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