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The french equivalent of the IRS did open up their software: https://github.com/GouvernementFR/calculette-impots-m-source-code https://github.com/GouvernementFR
by sametmax 8y ago
The french equivalent of the IRS did open up their software: https://github.com/GouvernementFR/calculette-impots-m-source-code https://github.com/GouvernementFR/calculette-impots-m-source...
Everybody got very enthousiastic at the begining, then realized:
- it was written in a niche proprietary language: M
- it was provided with almost zero doc or comments
- the process of getting the code was tedious, and the law changes every year
- taxes are complicated
And so nobody did anything with it ever since.
- Sniffnoy 8y agoHuh, usually I've seen "M" used to refer to MUMPS. But this appears to be something else -- I guess something proprietary, like you said. I have to wonder where one would look it up, as I imagine searching for information on the M programming language would mostly turn up information about MUMPS...
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Huh, usually I've seen "M" used to refer to MUMPS M is also the name of the built in language in Microsoft Power Query.