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Article #108Re: Common Lisp is a dpANS in Public Review
From: Vincent Delacour
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:19
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:19
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In article <1992Aug21.163403.7918@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: >if one were to [put copies of the Lisp standard on CD-ROM], it should >probably include beaucoup other ANSI std dox also, for many other prog >languages ... ANSI gets most of their revenue from selling their copyrighted standards documents, which cost about $50 each. So a CD-ROM with copies of 25 standards would have to cost about $1000 to give them similar revenue. Perhaps not so true. Producing paper copies has a cost too, whereas duplicating CD-ROMs is very cheap. See for example the Oxford English Dictionary, which costs $3000 in paper, and $850 only on CD-ROM, with lots of extra functionalities. [vd]
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Newsgroups: comp.std.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!parc!news!delacour From: delacour@waxwing.parc.xerox.com (Vincent Delacour) Subject: Re: Common Lisp is a dpANS in Public Review In-Reply-To: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us's message of 21 Aug 92 16:34:03 GMT Message-ID: <DELACOUR.92Aug21151943@waxwing.parc.xerox.com> Followup-To: comp.std.misc Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA References: <CHYDE.92Aug20142758@pecos.ads.com> <CHYDE.92Aug20173445@pecos.ads.com> <1992Aug21.163403.7918@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> Date: 21 Aug 92 15:19:43 Lines: 17