Programming Language

[Jon Lapham]

Christian Stimming wrote:
> We should really create a writeup about "why is this in C?" and put it 
> somewhere on the website (or in the to-be-created wiki; I still propose 
> http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/ ). People ask this *all the time*.

Christain, how about a FAQ?

I just added this text:

   Q: Why is GnuCash written in C?
   A: The core functionality of GnuCash is written in C, but do not 
forget that much of this can be accesed through Guile (scheme).  There 
are a number of reasons for why GnuCash is written in C.  The first is 
historical, Gnucash was started in 1998 and many of the OOP (C++, Java, 
Python) compilers were not yet mature and standarized enough on the 
variety of platforms considered at that time, so C was the only option 
at that time.  A second reason is because the standard GUI GnuCash uses 
is GTK, which is written in C.


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