Cross platform scripting language and database

[collins]

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 09:12, Joel Hammer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:26:00AM -0800, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > IMHO perl is confusing. Python is easier.
> > 
> > 
> > You could have a look at freepascal if you're up for a learning curve.
> > They have utilities to compile for windows (haven't tried them)
> > Lazarus is a cross platform ide based on freepascal.
> 
> Does Python give a nice GUI?
> 
> Freepascal sounds inviting, since I used to do a lot of Pascal programming
> years ago. I loved Pascal, but that was one more technology I liked that
> went away.  Is freepascal mature enuf? Does it produce good code for both
> windows and linux? Does it have a nice GUI for the enduser?

With either python or perl, you can user the tk/tcl interface (called
Tkinter for python) for gui stuff.  This works on linux/windows.

Both also have easy to use database interfaces.

I'll second the motion for python, since the code is less cryptic, and
the OO code is much easier to understand than the perl equivalents.

If you have questions about Tkinter, I'll try to answer them.  I've
written a number of home gui apps with Tkinter.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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