Regarding "Call for help"

[Derek Atkins]

Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at math.umd.edu> writes:

> If this is a stupid idea, please don't yell at me.  But would it help if 
> GnuCash was written in a high-level language like Python or Ruby?

To what affect?  You would have to re-write several dozen man-years of
work.  Had python existed 10 years ago the decisions might have been
different, but it did not exist then.

> It just occurred to me that those might make it easier to attrack 
> developers.  I hear that much of GnuCash is implemented in Scheme which 
> scares people.  No one is scared of Python or Ruby.  And those langauges 
> facilitate casual hacking.
> 
> Good idea? Stupid idea?

Irrelevant -- It's too late to do anything about it now.

-derek

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