Microsoft to score new C# standard

[Parker, Ron]

The '?' below were supposed to be British Pound signs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Parker, Ron 
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:32 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: Microsoft to score new C# standard
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: zscoundrel [mailto:zscoundrel at kc.rr.com]
> 
> > Instead of being an unwitting dup of the M$ marketing group, 
> > I prefer to 
> > refer to this as "hundred pound" rather than see-sharp!
> 
> That may be for the Academic version, but for the rest of us 
> you need to use
> the version number of VisualStudio as a multiplier, something 
> around 700?.
> This gets amazing close to the full release price of 
> VisualStudio.Net at
> $1,079US.  Currently 700? = $1,097.25US.  How many Linux 
> boxes and copies of
> GCC can I buy for that price?
> 
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