From 40e08b2914d04f0dbb0faa8879ae6d8e0c2b794b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evan Broder Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:02:43 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add a section to the README acknowledging cutcat.pl and account.pl --- README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 10052dc..8c17a0e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -72,3 +72,20 @@ The ``bluechips.wsgi`` wrapper script looks just like: from paste.deploy import loadapp application = loadapp('config:/var/www/ssl/config.ini') + +Acknowledgments +--------------- + +BlueChips is the latest in a long line of software to make managing +group finances easier, and would not be possible without the +intellectual inspiration of those predecessors. + +CUTCAT's [accounting software][cutcat] started the trend of +software-based accounting mechanisms. It inspired a re-implementation +as a curses script by [Nelson Elhage][nelhage], which introduced the +notion of "pushing expenditures" to simplify transfers. The algorithm +used in BlueChips for settling the books is directly cargo-culted from +Nelson's implementation. + +[cutcat]: http://cutc.at/accounting-software.html +[nelhage]: http://nelhage.com/ -- 2.45.2