Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!ashtate!dbase!awd From: awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: LSC 3.0 Summary: What he said... Message-ID: <404@dbase.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 88 18:34:24 GMT References: <327@ncar.ucar.edu> <730034@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <6894@cup.portal.com> <451@esquire.UUCP> Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale Cal. Lines: 29 In article <451@esquire.UUCP>, sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes: > In article <6894@cup.portal.com> Michael_mkahl_Kahl@cup.portal.com writes: > >If you feel the product is not for you, don't buy it. I'll > >understand. But don't accuse us of overcharging. That's absurd. > > > >-- Michael Kahl, Symantec > > You're not overcharging, it's just that some of your customers are > spoiled. I still remember the v2.01 "Christmas present" a couple of > years ago -- NO other software company has ever done anything like that... > > My check is in the mail, and thanks again Michael for the best C > development environment I've ever used. > I had to check the signature to make sure I didn't write this myself and then forgot it--I agree 100%, and what's weird is that I probably would have phrased it *exactly* the same way. Now that Think has run every other Mac C compiler company out of business, they could charge $495 and get away with it. Then, of course, a low-end niche would open up. So, the only niche available for competitors is big, slow, unfriendly batch mode compilers at a $695 price point. I'm surprised we haven't seen such a product. LightspeedC is the best, Michael. It gets my vote for best software product ever. /alastair/