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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
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David Starner <dvdeug@email.ro> writes:

> My feelings too. 15 years ago, someone made a killing by releasing a
> Turbo Pascal for under a hundred bucks, and made Pascal a major language.
> Free software has helped drop the off-the-shelf price of a complete Un*x
> system with C, C++, Pascal and Lisp compilers to under a hundred bucks.
> But I still get quoted a price of $700 for an Ada compiler. Maybe that's
> fine for ye system engineers, but programmers, especially we student
> programmers, don't have a wealth of money to drop on compilers. Perhaps I
> need to find a new hammer.

See my post about Debian GNU/Linux :)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.