Source: bfg
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Benedikt Wildenhain <debian@benedikt-wildenhain.de>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0)
Standards-Version: 3.6.0

Package: bfg
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Description: A bookkeeping software for geeks
 BFG is a bookkeeping software made for people who
  - classify themselves as "Geeks"
    (see http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/geek.html)
    or "Hackers"
    (see http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/H/hacker.html),
  - hate paperwork,
  - are forced to do some professional bookkeeping for whatever reason,
  - came to the conclusion that the existing literature about bookkeeping
    was not written to be understood by anyone,
  - prefer to record their business data in plain ASCII rather than
    in a spreadsheet application.
 .
 If you are familiar with bookkeeping and you need a program with a
 graphical user interface that helps you to do that job, get GNU Cash.
 In that case BFG is _not_ for you.
 .
 BFG is a simple computer language for adding up numbers. You can
 use it to write down your business data in plain ASCII, and the BFG
 compiler will sum it up and generate everything to make the tax
 office happy: VAT calculation, balance, ...
 .
 BFG does a double-entry bookkeeping and makes it understandable for
 people with a "Geekish" background: Scientists, programmers, ...
 .
 A short note to professional bookkeepers: Yes, this really _is_
 double-entry bookkeeping. We are just using our own words to
 describe it which makes it _much_ easier to understand _for us_.
 If you do not believe, just produce a balance from the same data
 and compare the results. They will be _identical_.
