[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisprog at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 18:47:41 PDT 2010


On Monday 30 August 2010 18:07:43 dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound2 at 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.

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.

- Jonathan M Davis


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