[GNC] Balsheet-eg.scm problem

[Stephen M. Butler]

On 08/23/2018 10:58 AM, John Ralls wrote:
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>> On Aug 23, 2018, at 8:59 AM, Stephen M. Butler <kg7je at arrl.net> wrote:
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>> On 08/23/2018 08:04 AM, Christopher Lam wrote:
>>> I can confirm loading of eguile reports is different. Hence I could not
>>> trigger loading. Hence there's no test for them.
>>>
>>> Off they go, please!
>> Ach!  OK.  So what language should I learn this winter?  Anything that
>> looks like:  COBOL, BASIC, Fortran, PL/SQL, Pascal (just a smidgen),
>> Transact, SPL (HP-3000)?  I have been thinking that putting C under my
>> belt might be useful -- then I retired!
> Pascal and HP-SPL are both Algol descendants, as is C, so learning that will likely be closest to your work experience. I don't think there are many people writing new code in procedural languages like COBOL, FORTAN, and BASIC.
>
> If you want to learn 21st-century programming idioms I recommend Python, but unless you've already encountered object-oriented programming you'll want to start with a "how-to-program" book rather than the language reference. Object orientation requires a different approach to breaking the problem into solvable pieces ("decomposition") than modular ("block-oriented") languages like Pascal, HP-SPL, and C. 
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> That said, if you want to write reports that are internal to GnuCash you've got to learn Scheme. If you're willing to use a SQL backend you can query the database and use any language you like and can find a compiler for on the results.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
Thanks John.  I read the "Tao of Objects" a decade or so ago.  But
that's as close as I've gotten to doing anything with that class of
programming.

Looks like C and Scheme are on my todo list.  I'll check to see if there
is a CBT for Scheme.

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