Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3
> > > database in a local file seems well suited.
> >
> > Only on the internet can someone ask a simple question and get tcl as the
> > answer. :-/
>
> OK, here's a quick program to show how it might be done.

The question wasn't "what's your favorite programming language", was it?

Even then, I'd be hard-pressed to recommend tcl as the thing to learn in 
2020, but that's beside the point.

> Do you consider this "difficult"?  If so, you are probably approaching
> this problem as a non-programmer, in which case I don't know what to
> tell you.  Programming languages exist for a reason, and Tcl is one of
> the easiest ones for this particular job.

Did you read the original question or use dbase back in the day?