From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!uw-june!pattis From: pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Pricing Ada out of Education Message-ID: <14269@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 3 Jan 91 18:22:34 GMT Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle List-Id: Many schools are beginning to look beyond Pascal and C as their language of instruction. Many successful authors are looking beyond Pascal and C for writing introductory, intermediate, and advanced Computer Science and Engineering textbooks. The two main contenders (leaving out the "odder" languages of Scheme, ML, and Smalltalk) seem to be Ada and C++. I don't want to start any discussion of the merits of these two languages, or of the quality of various language implementations. But I would like to illustrate some pricing strategies that make C++ very attractive to Universities (and hence authors who want to write books). I was quoted these prices today (1/3/91) on the phone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vendor: Borland (408) 438-5300 (contact customer support) Product Name Retail Education C++ 200 70 Professional 300 140 Small Model (Ed only) 40 (64K data/64K code) C++ Lab pack 10 C++, 1 Doc: $350 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vendor: Zortech C++ (800) 848-8408 Retail Education Compiler 200 75 Developer 450 200 Compiler pack 10 Compiler, 1 Doc 300 (+30/doc extra; up to 9 more) Developer pack 10 Developer, 1 Doc 700 (+60/doc extra; up to 9 more) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------