[plug] [why not staroffice]

[jeffw at mbox.com.au]

> 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.

I'd say it depends a lot on the type of interface you want to want for 
the database. Currently, I'm writing a web based interface, for which 
perl is great. If you're looking at a stand alone application then 
maybe you want to look at C/C++ and some sort of graphics toolkit. As 
far as I know, all these languages have *fairly* similar API's for 
database access. I'm currently using DBI for perl.

Jeff