What's your favorite year end method?

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 04:57:30PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> "Donald Allen" <donaldcallen at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >> And which "past mistake" would that be?  I'm not trying to start
> >> a religious war, either, I'm just trying to understand where you're
> >> coming from and what you mean.
> >
> > Because people aren't paid the big bucks to work on gnucash, the
> > project is perhaps more vulnerable to turnover than commercial
> > projects, where people can be held onto with financial incentives that
> > take years to vest. So while I think code readability is important in
> > any setting, it's particularly important here.
> 
> There's no way of knowing what language will be in vogue a decade
> from now.

So if you're choosing a language for the ages, you should pick one that 
is (a) easy to implement, (b) easy to learn, and (c) hard to crash.  
Scheme fits all these requirements.-- hendrik

-- hendrik