jayvana@wpi.wpi.edu (Jay van Achterberg) (03/21/90)
I would like to see a student discount on THINK Pascal/THINK Pascal Upgrades, and on THINK C, too, as long as we're at it. I originally bought Lightspeed Pascal version 1.0 in 1987. Since then, I paid the meager $10 to upgrade to version 1.11 (Mac II compatibility), and coughed up the 50 bucks for the upgrade to version 2.0 (worth it for the rewritten manual, alone!) Throughout my history with THINK Pascal, I have been a student, most of it at college. I originally paid something like $90 for the program while in high school, and I think it was worth it. Admittedly, it was a substantial bit of money for me then, but that THINK Technologies' programming environment couldn't be beat (and still there is no evidence to me that anything will be beating it in the near future! Really impressive! Kind of like the Macintosh itelf!) for doing homework assignments, and made it worth every penny. Now, though, I face a dilemma. Do I pay $70 (equivalent to perhaps $200 or 300 to a real person) for an upgrade whose features I'd like to have and that would probably motivate me to move to new programming territory (OOP)? Or do I save the money (not that I have it to save, by the way) and continue working with version 2.0, which still does fine for the standard Pascal homework assignments I need to do? I am positive (based on the previous purchasing/upgrading experiences with THINK Pascal) that I'll feel I have gotten my money's worth out of the upgrade when I do buy it. Well, when it came to the version 2.0 upgrade, I had a part-time job, and was able to "splurge" on a $50 treat for myself! Now I am living off summer job money, and am near the end of it. I can tell you now that there's no way I'll be upgrading to version 3.0 for $70 until the end of the summer when my checking account is impressive again. But oh, I would like to mess around with some OOP while I've got some time here and there at school... If I could get the upgrade for $30 as a student, I think I would do it now. (Yup, that extra $40 really makes a difference.) In fact, if I could buy THINK C for $50, I'd most likely buy it soon (maybe at the end of the summer) and get into some C programming on the Mac. In general, I think that the best time to be able to afford these packages would be while I'm a student. I know that at work last summer (programming, not on Macs) I had zero interest in programming my Mac at home after a 40-80 hour work week. (I'll guess that 40-80 hours of work each week for a kid with a "head in the computer at work continuously with not much time for a life outside of the job" is about equivalent to the responsibilities of a graduate with a full-time job and a family.) But as a student, I can direct my computer-intensive life pretty much where I want it to go. Now when it can't go somewhere because of lack of money for an upgrade cost,... well, that's sad. Oops, sorry I've been rambling again... Anyway, what I'm saying is college discounts are nice, and should exist on the excellent products that Symantec sells. (BTW, if it turns out that Symantec DOES offer college discounts (or is planning to soon), I apologize for not already knowing that and making it sound like they don't. Now please someone tell me how I can take advantage of it!) -Jay (jayvana@wpi.wpi.edu, jayvana@wpi.bitnet)
siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) (03/22/90)
In article <9959@wpi.wpi.edu> jayvana@wpi.wpi.edu (Jay van Achterberg) writes: > >Anyway, what I'm saying is college discounts are nice, and should exist on >the excellent products that Symantec sells. (BTW, if it turns out that >Symantec DOES offer college discounts (or is planning to soon), I apologize >for not already knowing that and making it sound like they don't. Now please >someone tell me how I can take advantage of it!) Symantec doesn't offer direct educational discounts that I know of, but Edutech, our exclusive educational distributor, does. Whether that discount is passed on to you as a student is purely a function of the campus reseller of Symantec products. R. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rich Siegel Staff Software Developer Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel "When someone who makes four hundred and fifty dollars an hour wants to tell you something for free, it's a good idea to listen." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~