Re: Bug#405011: ITP: ledger -- command-line accounting program

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Mon, 01 Jan 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Ledger is an accounting tool with the moxie to exist. It provides no
> > bells or whistles, and returns the user to the days before user
> > interfaces were even a twinkling in their father's CRT. What it does
> > offer is a double-entry accounting ledger with all the flexibility and
> > muscle of its modern day cousins, without any of the fat. Think of it
> > as the Bran Muffin of accounting tools.
> 
> This description doesn't explain what kind of accounting this program
> provides.

"What it does offer is a double-entry accounting ledger"

seems pretty clear to me.  Maybe I just don't know enough about accounting
to wonder about different sorts of double-entry accounting ledgers :(

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