On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 02:45:58PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > Since you probably would like an application with a nice interface > (curses, GUI, web), I'd suggest PHP. The platform for your interface is > in the server and the browser; you just have to write some HTML, which > is pretty easy. Otherwise, you're looking at fiddly code with GTK or QT > (or ncurses).
PHP is a terrible language, and I wouldn't recommend it as a starting point for anything but failure. Also, I wouldn't assume that the OP wants a web interface. If anything, he probably wants a command line tool that only runs on localhost. (And then he'll tack on new insane restrictions later. "Of course I wanted it to run on a 20x2 LCD! And it has to fit on a 5.25" floppy! You should have known that!!") Crazy undocumented criteria aside, Tcl, Perl and Python would all suit this project extremely well, I think. The OP should choose whichever of those 3 he likes best, and learn how to talk to a database with it. If a pure command line interface is desired, then there's not much else he needs to know. If a GUI interface is desired, all 3 of those languages have Tk bindings. For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 database in a local file seems well suited.
