Programming Language (was: State of the GnuCash project: A call for help)

[Robert Uhl]

Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:
> 
> *Gnucash was started in 1998*.  That's basically it.  C++ compilers
> were not yet mature and standarized enough on the variety of platforms
> considered at that time.  Same for Java or Python.  So C was the only
> option *at that time*.

Well, and most free software is in C, and the alternatives have rather
stronger negatives and weaker positives, perhaps?

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