> On Aug 23, 2018, at 8:59 AM, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
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.
Regards,
John Ralls
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