Checkbook/Accounting Program

[Donald.Troendle@kodak.com]

Has anyone used LabView to create a Checkbook/Accounting program? I have been using Quicken for Home & Business and have found problems with this software. I then tried Microsoft Money, there is a unsupported  version still available for use. I found this software to be much more stable and easy to use but doesn't have all the features that I would like. I am thinking about creating my own version with LabView but wanted to check with the community to see if somebody has already invented this wheel?

[LV_Pro]

While it is undoubtedly doable, with sufficient knowledge (of the accounting part as well as LabVIEW), I'm thinking it would be a pretty big project. Quicken has been evolving for quite a while, so the underlying program is pretty mature, I would think, and has had a lot of programmer hours and $ thrown at it. Is there a Quicken "user forum" to look at the issues you are having?

[Bob_Schor]

There's a saying, "When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail".  I have a colleague who has asked me about using LabVIEW to write a "Disk de-duplication routine" (he is very sloppy about orderly backups or Version Control, so tends to have tens of copies of large data and program files on rapidly-filling 2TB disk drives) in LabVIEW.  I said "Yes, but why would you want to?  It would undoubtedly be slower than what's already out there, and probably not as well-thought-out as code that a team who has studied the problem has put together".

When I first learned Fortran (who remembers Fortran?  Fortran II?), I wrote a program to balance my checkbook.  It worked, but those punched cards were a pain ...

Bob Schor