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title: hledger frequently asked questions
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# Frequently asked questions
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## How does hledger relate to ledger ?
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hledger was inspired by and is partly a clone of John Wiegley's
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[ledger](http://ledger-cli.org) (also called "c++ ledger" here.)
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I was a happy ledger user and contributor for some time; I still use it
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occasionally. I wrote hledger because I wanted to develop financial tools
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in the Haskell programming language and ecosystem, whose advantages I
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believe are compelling. I have also tried to make hledger a little more
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simple, usable, installable, documented, appealing to collaborators, and
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to provide alternate user interfaces to make it more widely useful.
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ledger has more advanced power-user features on the command-line
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(periodic and modifier transactions, budgets, capital gains tracking,
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value expressions, custom output formats, etc.) and it remains faster
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and more memory efficient (for now!)...
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hledger builds faster and has an up-to-date manual and an optional web
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interface (which often works on ledger files too)...
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The two projects collaborate freely. We share the
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[#ledger](irc://irc.freenode.net/#ledger) IRC channel but have
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separate mail lists
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([hledger list](http://groups.google.com/group/hledger/),
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[ledger-cli list](http://groups.google.com/group/ledger-cli/)). I try
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to give back by providing infrastructure
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([ledger-cli.org](http://ledger-cli.org)) and IRC support.
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hledger stays compatible with ledger wherever possible, so that you
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can often use both tools on the same data file. Here is
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[more about compatibility](MANUAL.html#compatibility-with-c-ledger).
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Summary: hledger is a friendly, co-evolving, compatible rewrite of ledger
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in Haskell, lacking some of ledger's power features and raw performance,
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and focussing on robustness, usability, ease of development, and
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experimental add-ons such as the [web interface](MANUAL.html#web).
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