[plug] [why not staroffice]

[tlee]

How about real applications to use at one's work. Databases are the things we use
most, but what language would you suggest to write database programs in linux.
Would tcl scripts be the best way to go, or would they be too restrictive. Cobol
must surely be very good handling text and databases, because that was the
original commercial language for unix, was it not? But too difficult you say? What
else is easy?

Mike from West Australia wrote:

> At 01:43 PM 5/10/2000 +0800, you wrote:
> >Mike from West Australia wrote:
> >> To 'start' and teach programming and learn structure for neophytes,
> >> one would consider Ada, Pascal etc
> >
> >> Yes I did put my flame suit on with SPF-500 too ;-)
> >
> >Pascal's fine (if limited) - Oberon would be a better Pascalish choice - but
> >Ada? Pffft! Nuke the problem and handle the consequences with traps. Fabulous
> >idea, why don't Microsoft adopt it?
>
> We're talking about reaching structure etc, Not as a final productivity
> tool and yes I would use ada traps as you put it to illustrate common
> debug problems as a traching tool, been there done that :)
>
> Rdgs
>
> Mike