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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.
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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/