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Re:The Surprising Ease of Plain Text Accounting by Swizec on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @02:37AM (#12120196)
This is accounting and personal finance.

Unless I am completely mistaken about what either of those terms mean.

Your approach follows amdahl's law by the way. Optimize for big wins instead of doing micro optimizations. Accounting is how you know which are which.

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Re:The Surprising Ease of Plain Text Accounting by infinite8s on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @11:23AM (#12122275)
That's an interesting way of thinking about it. Accounting is the programming equivalent to profiling (money flows in this case instead of time/memory flows).
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