Re:Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph
by lisper on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:16PM
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> Java language
That's actually a pretty good analogy. There is a lot in Java that could be improved too.
Re:Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph
by ChirronT447 on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @08:17PM
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That's because people are trained into the system.
If you started teaching it another way, eventually that other way would be the norm.
Re:Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph
by nlitened on Thursday April 11, 2024 @07:18AM
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It should be tangibly 10x—100x better than what's already out there for people to switch. If you make something marginally better (and by default anything unknown is much worse than what everybody knows already), nobody will bother.
I used to think that way, then I understood this thinking is the exact opposite of what’s happening.
Hundred million people on earth know how to work with debit and credit exactly as it has been written in accounting books for hundreds of years. When you need to expand your accounting department, you go and hire a person who understands things exactly the same way as your current accountants, can pick up their work, they can communicate effectively. As a CEO, you are spared of teaching every new junior accountant your own flavor of first-principles accounting, you don’t need to write your custom accounting software, and convert your company’s books for tax authorities and outside auditors who are not familiar with your system.
Same with music notation. Same with Java language. Same with every other piece of human knowledge.