From: j_sampson AT postmaster DOT co DOT uk (nospam) (Joe Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++,alt.lang.basic Subject: Re: A small bussiness billing application Date: 22 Jul 1999 17:54:41 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Thu Jul 22 11:55:33 1999 References: <8E0A6B90Bjsampsonpostmasterco AT news DOT earthlink DOT net> Organization: Joe Sampson X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail User-Agent: Xnews/2.07.01 Lines: 48 NNTP-Posting-Host: pool0167.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net X-ELN-Date: 22 Jul 1999 17:54:41 GMT Message-ID: <8E0B70427jsampsonpostmasterco@news.earthlink.net> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com judmc123 AT bellsouth DOT net (Judson McClendon) wrote in : Hi, Thank you for your reply. I will run the program that you mention and see what happens. Please be aware that I am doing this for my own good more than for my mom's business. The DOS based billing application that she uses is very old and she wants something new. The only thing she does on that application is end of the month billing and she keeps track of the total amount billed during the year. She does everything else on paper as she hates computers. She wants to have a new program by January and I offered to see if I could write one by then. She wants something that will be tailored exactly to her business (a dental lab). If I can't get it to work in time or the program I write is unsuitible, she won't use it and buy a professional application, it's as simple as that. I know that by no means will the program be as feature rich as a professional ver., but she wants something very simple and she wants it to work just like the DOS program she uses now. As I mentioned, I am a first year programming student and I think it would be a great learning experience for me. Thanks again for your input, Joe > >Any programming tool that does not support scaled decimal >variables is unsuitable for handling money. Just run this >little QBasic or QuickBasic program that counts from $0.00 to >$1.00 by pennies and see why: > > FOR I = 0 TO 1 STEP .01 > PRINT I; > NEXT > >Writing financial applications in C/C++ is about as smart as >writing a compiler in COBOL. The vast majority of business >applications are not written in COBOL because business are >stupid. It is because COBOL is the only language designed >specifically from the ground up to write business >applications, and it is still the very best tool available >for writing core financial applications.