Report development without the need to restart GnuCash

[Adam Funk]

On 2008-05-22, Donald Allen wrote:

> Perhaps. But I refer you to the book "Structure and Interpretation of
> Computer Programs", by Abelson, Sussman and Sussman (MIT Press). If
> you make the investment of your time to read this classic book, you
> will be amply rewarded. And you will come to understand, I'm quite
> sure, why Scheme makes so much semantic and syntactic sense. And when
> you've written programs in an environment that supports it properly,
> such as MIT Scheme, you are very likely to find that you are more
> productive in Scheme than any other language.

This is somewhere on my to-do list.

> Scheme, and it's parent language, Lisp, has always been a hard sell,
> because people look at Scheme programs and they don't look like what
> they expect computer programs to look like. And they tend to dismiss
> it at that point, without considering that the language was designed
> by some extremely smart people, and there are good reasons why it is
> the way it is.

In theory, I think Lisp is great.  In practice, I find it pretty hard
to read (like backwards German) but that is strongly conditioned by
using other languages.