Cross platform scripting language and database

[Alan Jackson]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:37:43 -0500
Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> I need to write some simple software for organizing digital images.
> There will be a need to automatically label the images, add comments,
> and create a database. There needs to be a pretty GUI for the enduser.
> 
> This will run mainly on a windows 2000 box but I would like:
> 1. to use something beside visual basic or other proprietary software. 
> 2. to have a cross platform language, since I will likely be developing this on my home computer in large part, which runs lindows. 
> 
> So,  of the cross platform scripting languages out there, which ones
> are good for windows 2000 and linux? Which ones are simple?
> 

I regularly move (not port) code between Linux/Solaris/Windows NT and
with perl, even with Perl/Tk, I have zero issues.

I also have put other peoples Java code on all those platforms with no
problems.

And, for very simple problems that are mostly GUI issues, Tcl/Tk works
well. I don't really like the language, but if my functionality is 80%
GUI and 20% calculation, it's not a bad choice.

Python is probably okay too, but I've never felt the need to learn that 
one. 8-)

You might seriously look at Tcl/Tk. It looks like your problem is
small, and Tcl/Tk is pretty lightweight.

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