writing simple business apps using mysql+perl+ncurse

[m.w.chang]

> How long is a rope?

??? deadline? no deadline. just for fun. I always want to investigate 
the posibliity of replacing clipper 5 with perl+mysql+curse.

> Are you a competent perl programmer?

no. I knew xBase (notably Clipper and Foxpro) from the bottom up.

> Have you ever done any curses programming?

a bit. but using C. It's a distributed banking system prototype in a 
post-graduate computer course (which I didn't complete).