finance software

Derek Neighbors derek at gnue.org
Thu Oct 27 16:24:28 MST 2005


Ted Gould wrote:
> Derek Neighbors wrote:
> 
>> The developers are well... How do you say it politely.... Set in their 
>> ways?  It is by far the most functional and reliable out there that I 
>> have found, but has a hard time attracting developers because it is 
>> written in C with a healthy dose of scheme.  I don't like working on C 
>> (much less scheme) when I am getting paid, so you can forget about it 
>> for volunteer work.
> 
> 
> Hmmm, I like C and Scheme, but I can't imagine working on financial 
> software.... or worse yet, business process software.  Those people are 
> crazy! :)

I love it.  This comment made me smile.  To be clear, I don't dislike C 
or Scheme, but find using them to write GUI productivity applications to 
be painful. :)

--
Derek


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