Re: Point this poor neophyte in the right direction

For open source accounting packages written in perl,
check out 

http://www.sql-ledger.com/

HTH

Randy

--- Knute Snortum
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm interested in writing open source business
> software (accounting,
> distribution, manufacturing) in Perl.  My problem is
> I've been developing in
> a version of business basic called BBx
> (www.basis.com) and so even though I
> have designed and implemented large systems I have
> no experience in what
> people would normally call enterprise development
> (e.g., J2EE, .NET, COBRA,
> etc.)
> 
> From what I can see P5EE is geared towards people
> who understand traditional
> enterprise development and who want to translate
> this into Perl.  Where
> should I start?  I don't really want to learn about
> other platforms if this
> isn't going to help my Perl programming goal.
> 
> I'd describe my Perl programming ability as early
> advanced (to use a piano
> playing term).  I've written several Perl modules
> using OO that I use in
> scripts to help with the business basic development,
> but none of them use
> any "black magic" and the internals of Perl are a
> mystery to me.
> 
> Can you point me in the right direction?  Should I
> study some other platform
> first?  Buy and book?  Go to a web site?
> 
> --
> -- Knute Snortum
> "Sure, I drink six 8-ounce glasses of water a day. 
> I just like my water
> hot and filtered through ground coffee beans."
> 
> 
> 


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