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$50 is expensive for personal software. Many IDEs are free for non commercial use
by FT_intern 10y ago
$50 is expensive for personal software. Many IDEs are free for non commercial use
- codetoeat 10y agoYeah but for $50 you can build something that someone might find useful and pay you for it. I wished I had more of an entrepreneur spirit in my college days, it would of paid for all those books that I barely used.
- pjmlp 10y agoWhat world we live in that $50 is considered expensive.... I paid around 150 € in for Turbo Pascal 1.5 for Windows 3.1 with student discount and around 200 € for Turbo C++ 3.1 for Windows 3.1, back in 1993. Imagine how much that would be in today's money!
- vvanders 10y agoSure, but we're also talking about back in '98 where the software landscape was pretty different. It was about the same as a AAA PC game title which was a fair price to my younger self. Heck back then I got a physical 8" x 6" box, none of this puny CD/DVD sleeve stuff. We had to drive to a store in downtown San Diego that explicitly sold compilers/productivity software/etc. Hard to believe that happening this day and age.