[$] Counting beans—and more—with Beancount

It is normally the grumpy editor's job to lookat accounting software; he does so with an eye toward getting the business off of theproprietary QuickBooks application and moving to something free. It may bethat Beancount deserves a look ofthat nature before too long but, in the meantime, a slightly less grumpyeditor has been messing with this text-based accounting tool for a varietyof much smaller projects. It is an interesting system, with a lot ofcapabilities, but its reliance on hand-rolling for various piecesmay scare some folks off.