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Re: Plain Text Accounting (PTA)

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Systems that use immediate strict categorization don’t work for some people. At a company I worked at we went with a two-phase approach. A person would write notes (literally iphone notes) in the following format: Apr 5 24 -50 Alice tools -220 Bob home project Apr 2 24 +20 Bob returned loan Note that time goes “up” to avoid scrolling too much on open. Later we loaded it into a script which would parse dates, detect k…

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Re: Plain Text Accounting (PTA)

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A recutils clone in Go would be pleasantly hackable for whipping up some double-entry.

The wheel is there already. Call librec from Lua and speed up your plain text accounting with LuaJIT.

Lua oh noes. I pick a language and stick with it for years. Currently Go.
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