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From: a45@mindlink.UUCP (Ken Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Budget/Finance Program?
Message-ID: <3456@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 90 05:16:10 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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Altho I haven't seen PHASER, HOME FRONT or MONEY MENTOR, I've had some
experience working with BEST. After a year with this program, I decided to
write my own accounting program! Accounting which is vital to every business,
should be somewhat enjoyable. BEST and I had several disagreements, and I won
:) Removed it from my hdrive.

My program is called "Money.rexx" and is written with Arexx. It's about 94k is
size so far and is about 90% completed (just the printing out of the various
forms yet to be done). Since I'm running a little late in filing my return, I'm
slowly getting motivated to finishing it :)

I have no experience in programing other than jumping into learning Arexx, but
it has been fun, tho somewhat time-comsuming (500 + hours).

A few months ago in one of the local general computer rags, they had an article
about the top 10 accounting programs - mostly ms-dos programs. All had several
good points and of course, several bad ones. It's neat knowing that one can
customize a program to meet ones needs at a moments notice. I'm trying to keep
those 'bad points' to a minimun :)

Since Arexx is now part of the new Amiga OS, I'm glad I got involved when I did
(2 years ago). "Money.rexx" was made to make good use of the mouse. Some typing
is required for when a purchase description is made (which makes sense). I
guess the just of this article has to do with a user being un-satisfied with
products currently available. At some point, ones frustration level is met and
something has to be done. If this is the only major software project I get
involved in, that's fine. It does take a fair amount of key-tapping, and I do
have a photography - computer graphics business to run.