On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Jon Wood wrote: > On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 13:48, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > I don't know about the "most popoular" -- what I've done in the past is to > > use PostgreSQL as the back end, and then use perl to write frontends. > > These front ends have sometimes been text-only, sometimes GUI using > > Perl/Tk, and sometimes web-based using CGI. > An alternative to using Perl is (at the risk of starting a flame war :P) > PHP (php.net) which while originally designed as a web based language, > can now be used for text-only shell scripts and GTK based apps > (gtk.php.net). It also has excellent documentation for most things, > which as far I'm concerned makes it the best option around for script > type apps. > > Using PEAR applications (pear.php.net) you can also get support for most > database options, and several other things. > > Jon *adds gasoline to the potential flame war* I've never used it, but I know a lot of otherwise-non-programmers (and programmers) who seem to be fond of python, which I've affectionately heard called a pseudocode compiler. :) Jess -- ...crying "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!"... ~ HPL icq : 34583382 | === ascii ribbon campaign === msn : dasunt@hotmail.com | () - against html mail yim : tsunad | /\ - against proprietary attachments
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