Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?
On Mon 27 Jul 2020 at 15:46:08 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote:
> 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?
I, for one, read the question a previous time that it was posed:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/02/msg01024.html
That reference is somewhere mid-thread, and this time I'll quote
it to save your looking it up:
"A little research indicates that Tcl/Tk plays well with sqlite.
A couple of years ago I started learning it for a now abandoned
project. I'll follow up on that combo. [I looked at some code
fragments on http://wiki.tcl.tk . They were reminiscent of what
I did in dBaseII so may be a productive path.]" — Richard Owlett
Cheers,
David.
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