What's your favorite year end method?

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 02:02:49PM -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> I think Scheme was a mistake precisely because there are relatively
> few people who are "fluent" in it (I will, of course, defend the
> semantic and even syntactic beauty of the language to the death :-).
> There may also be a performance issue with this particular
> implementation (guile), but that's irrelevant to this discussion.

As another poster has mentioned, it took him about 4 hours to learn 
enough Scheme to write reports.  I doubt that is true of Perl.

-- hendrik