State of the GnuCash project: A call for help

[Carl L. Gilbert]

On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 20:52, Derek Atkins wrote:
> "Carl L. Gilbert" <lamont_gilbert at rigidsoftware.com> writes:
> 
> > Well I can toss my hat into the ring on the software side.  I'll slowly
> > phase myself in to coding.  Try to learn by tackling a few bugs first.
> > 
> > I expect the ramp up to take at least 2 months...I assume its c code?  
> > Hopefully its c++ and object oriented!?  I know nothing about Linux
> > GUIs, so Ill stay behind the scenes.
> 
> GnuCash is written in C and Scheme.  No C++.  It's somewhat object
> oriented, but probably not to a C++/Java-coder's wishes.
> 

Ugh.  'c'.  the pain.  I write c at work.  embedded software.  I think c
just requires lots more upfront architecting.  with OO languages like
java/c++ I have been able to dive right in, and sort of refactor along
the way.  This is really no big deal at all though.  I still enjoy
programming.

Anyway, is their any particular reason for it being in c and not c++?  I
am really a self taught programmer so I don't know some of the finer
details about such decisions.


> > I could start by rewriting the whole thing in Java :)
> 
> And we could ignore you, too ;)

yes, yes, I am only kidding.  Though writing Java is so much fun.


This will be interesting.

-- 
Thank you,


CL Gilbert
"Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor
man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard." Ecclesiastes
9:16

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