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- From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
- Subject: Re: Home budgeting program requested!
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:43:11 GMT
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- Lloyd> Personally, I can't fathom why anyone would use a computer to do Home
- Lloyd> Finances. ... I use a calculator.
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- Jon> A calculator suffices for balancing your checkbook, but have you tried
- Jon> keeping a ledger of your assets and liabilities...
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- Lloyd> Yes, I do all that, and more, in my consulting business. I use a
- Lloyd> spreadsheet to do it.
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- Ha! So you *do* use a computer, after all! (That is, unless you do your
- spreadsheets by hand.) So there!
-
- (BTW, I thought what you wrote about pre-rolled vs. flexible software to be
- interesting. It gets at the whole issue of mechanism vs. policy -- you
- want software which provides mechanisms to do whatever you want to do, but
- doesn't enforce a particular policy for *how* to do it.)
- --
- Jon Reid j-reid@uiuc.edu GEnie: THE.REIDS
- "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
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