DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 13 11:25:30 PDT 2013


On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:33:26 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 6/13/2013 6:58 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Home ownership is much simpler than playing with stocks,
>
> I have to strongly disagree about that. Buying/selling a stock is a  
> mouse click. Tax accounting is a one liner. Buying/selling a house is a  
> major amount of work. Heck, even once you have a deal, you have a stack  
> of 30 or more papers you gotta sign. Dealing with the taxes on it is a  
> major amount of record keeping - especially if you make any capital  
> improvements.

I meant much simpler to predict/easier to come out ahead.  Sheesh, so much  
literalism here :)

-Steve


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