Hello Jonathan,
On Monday 30 August 2010 18:07:43 dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
I think that some categories of software will never be free open
source. For example, tax prep software. That's because tax software
is a load of tedious detail work with no glory.
Aww come one, we should be able to write a few CTFE functions that
generate the source code to tax prep software for you. Been working
on this, but I keep running into the following bug:
mixin(taxPrep(Countries.unitedStates));
// Error: Out of memory. Tax code too complicated.
I've been threatening for years to do it in postscript :)
It reminds me of a Tom Clancy book where they stacked all the books
with the tax code in them on top of a table, and the table broke.
Well, Duh! Any table long enough to hold the tax code will break under it's
own weight /without/ the tax code on it!
- Jonathan M Davis
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