Re: What Programming Language Should I Choose ?????

[Colin McKinnon]

At 17:30 16/09/99 +0800, chchar wrote:
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>  From what I know, I has the options either by using Perl, Java, PHP,
>C++, C, Python or TCL because they provide an API to connect to MySQL.
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Sorry if this is obvious but since you didn't mention it in your post...

You also need a GUI API - which most of these provide.

You need to decide whether you want to run your programs on users desktop
machines or whether you wish them to access the programs running on a
server through, say, a browser interface. The latter:

has a very definite ceiling on the functionality of the UI :( 
makes distribution / maintainence lots easier :)
has implications for security :(
means that anyone with a web-browser can access the package :)

Colin