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Re: [LUG] payroll



On Monday 20 October 2003 12:17, Kai Hendry wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 09:59:18PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> > Is this a very large project to have been done in shell?
>
> The shell is the best place to start. As accountants do mainly input
> into the machine, the interface has to be fast and powerful.
>
> Most GUIs do not hack it!

I agree on the interface, but many people would have reached for Python, 
Perl, or even C, rather than the shell language.  I think.

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