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.