Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Ariel Rios writes: > > > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote: > > > I'm sure this has been discussed a zillion times but I'd like to bring it up again: > > > > Requiring that all high-level Gnucash code be in Scheme might be > > restricting the number of developers able to contribute

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-14 Thread James LewisMoss
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:06:08 -0800, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dan> Ariel Rios wrote: >> >> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote: >> >> > I'm sure this has been discussed a zillion times but I'd like to >> > bring it up again: >> > >> > Requiring that all high-level Gnucash

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-14 Thread Ariel Rios
> Because there are very few people who know how to program in Scheme > compared to the number of people who know how to program in C, C++, Java, or Perl. Basically your argument is: "Scheme is bad for there are not many programmers". However you forget that Scheme is easier than C, C++, Java, Pe

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-14 Thread Dan Kegel
Ariel Rios wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote: > > > I'm sure this has been discussed a zillion times but I'd like to bring it up again: > > > > Requiring that all high-level Gnucash code be in Scheme might be > > restricting the number of developers able to contribute to it. > Why?

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-14 Thread Ariel Rios
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Dan Kegel wrote: > I'm sure this has been discussed a zillion times but I'd like to bring it up again: > > Requiring that all high-level Gnucash code be in Scheme might be > restricting the number of developers able to contribute to it. Why? > Here's a few quotes from th

scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-14 Thread Dan Kegel
I'm sure this has been discussed a zillion times but I'd like to bring it up again: Requiring that all high-level Gnucash code be in Scheme might be restricting the number of developers able to contribute to it. Here's a few quotes from the web in support of that theory (found by searching for

arguments to -render in HTML generator code

2001-01-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Hey grib, I'm almost to the point of doing useful things with panes (finally). One of the final things that needs to be in place is a renderer along the lines of the gnc:html-*foo*-render that are required to display guppi charts in reports. However, I'm not exactly clear on how these are suppo

Re: Bug Report - Saving Empty File Causes Crash

2001-01-14 Thread Dave Peticolas
Christopher Browne writes: > This is with a CVS checkout from last night of the latest and greatest. > > This is admittedly one of those pathological cases where the "dumb user" > has _nothing to save_, so that trying to save the DB is a mite silly. > > Crashing is nonetheless an irritating resu

Bug Report - Saving Empty File Causes Crash

2001-01-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Christopher Browne writes: > This is with a CVS checkout from last night of the latest and greatest. > > This is admittedly one of those pathological cases where the "dumb user" > has _nothing to save_, so that trying to save the DB is a mite silly. > > Crashing is nonetheless an irritatin

Bug Report - Saving Empty File Causes Crash

2001-01-14 Thread Christopher Browne
This is with a CVS checkout from last night of the latest and greatest. This is admittedly one of those pathological cases where the "dumb user" has _nothing to save_, so that trying to save the DB is a mite silly. Crashing is nonetheless an irritating result. Note that in "SQL land," the prope