Le dimanche 16 octobre 2005 à 10:40 +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > On Saturday 15 October 2005 12:22 am, Josh Sled wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 00:13 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > I have no knowledge of scheme and despite many appeals from Derek and > > > others, I have absolutely no intention of learning it! > > > > > > I've been recommended to learn scheme so many times within gnucash but > > > NEVER outside it. Why should new developers be treated in that way? I've > > > mentioned > > > > If you have any interest in programming, you should know lisp. Period. > > !!!! Rubbish ! > > That's a myth propagated in university colleges that has no relation to the > real world of self-taught programmers. > > Lisp is included in various computer science courses for good reasons - > esoteric reasons - but no language is universal. > > Binary is not portable, same for assembly > C has known limitations. > C++ also.
> (Plus in the GNU world, C tends to mean Gnome / console and C++ > tends to mean KDE). FYI abiword, vmware, inkscape, which are non trivial projects, are in C ++. > Java isn't actually free (because of Sun's restrictions on the JRE which is > in > Debian non-free) > Basic - well that goes so far but it is as it's name > Fortran, Cobol, and so many others have their (niche) place. > Perl, Python, Lisp, Scheme, Haskell ... cannot do everything. > > We don't have the privilege, Josh, of only selecting GnuCash developers from > those with an "acceptable" language background. > > If we keep that premise, gnucash ends up in /dev/null (and soon). > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
