On Saturday 16 September 2006 13:49, Alan wrote: > Can anyone suggest a programming tool that is reasonably easy to > understand and preferably cheap...like free.... > I have a program that I wrote a few years ago, written in Dbase3 and > Clipper, which works in DOS, but although it can be read under windows > XP it cannot be worked on due to access to clipper for compiling. > I would like to look at rewriting it in a language that would work in > Linux. It is a reasonably large program with over 17000 lines in it and > uses around 100 databases and associated Index files. > Any suggestions please??
http://www.postgresql.org/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/ Just my suggested language, all those available for linux have code to interface to Postgresql -- CS
