[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[BCS]

Hello Jonathan,

> 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.
>> 

I've  been threatening for years to do it in postscript :)

> 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.
> 

Well, Duh! Any table long enough to hold the tax code will break under it's 
own weight /without/ the tax code on it!

> - Jonathan M Davis
> 
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