In a message dated 05-04-96, Eric Theriault said to Peter Garner:

 PG> It is listed $225 (US) in the Spring IBM Direct Software Catalog (1
 PG> 800 342 6672). I have been a C++ programmer for 7 years and I think
 PG> that IBM Visual Age C++ is a very good product. 

ET| That's probably what I'm going to get.

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Don't you think the signal/noise ratio was a bit low in the above reply:
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