Programming Language (was: State of the GnuCash project:crhelp) (fwd)

[Linas Vepstas]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 01:46:57PM -0400, tripp+gnucash-user at perspex.com was heard to remark:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Dave Reed wrote:
> 
> > If gnucash used Python instead of guile, I'd try to find some time to
> > help work on it, but I just don't enjoy writing code in Lisp/Scheme
> > like languages so I've never become proficient in using them.
> 
> I'd be perfectly happy just to get the SWIG bindings back, or some other
> general binding mechanism so we could embrace and extend gnc in our own
> ways.

Last time I tired, the swig interfaces still worked.  Just not well
documented.

Although there was one 'bug'/feature: I couldn't figure out how to 
turn perl arrays into GList and v.v. and a lot of the routines use
lists in the API.

This issue is one of the big ones for swig/perl

--linas

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