Python report-writing mechanism?

[Jeff Carneal]

On Mar 6, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Quoting "Michael B. Trausch" <fd0man at gmail.com>:
>
>> Is there any reason that Scheme is used?  It would seem (and I  
>> could be
>> wrong) that LISP in general is moribund... or is it used
>> behind-the-scenes more often than is generally known?
>
> Historical reasons.  First, "guile" is the "official" GNU Scripting  
> Language.
> Second, the previous group of developers liked scheme and knew it  
> well.
> In fact, some of the old GnuCash developers were also (and some still
> are) guile developers.   Also, yes, scheme is used behind the scenes,
> but we're slowly extracting that.
>
> Right now the biggest users of scheme in gnucash are:
>
>   1) Reports
>   2) QIF Import
>   3) Check Printing

Would it be fair to say that rewriting any or all of these in C is a  
medium to long term goal of the project?  Because I have given some  
consideration to writing in a second and (temporarily) completely  
separate reporting system in C and then removing the equivalent  
scheme reports as the project progressed.  This is, of course, having  
only very cursorily looked at any of the code...

Jeff