Chambers wrote:
> ) Use forms to enter data

In a web browser or on the screen?

> ) Store data in a DB
> ) Query said DB through other forms
> ) Create graphical presentations

How graphical?  Like pie charts?

> ) Fetch a web page
> ) Process said web page, looking for specific information

Tcl will do all those things, with minimal work, both for web and GUI. 
PHP is probably easiest (bleh) if you're just talking about interacting 
via a browser.

> Ideally I would also be able to format data for sending to a printer, 
> but that's optional.

Tcl can *format* some stuff for a printer. It's not trivial to get 
graphics onto a printer from Tcl. If you're talking about sophisticated 
graphics like 3D charts and such, you might want to have Tcl drive 
Excel, or output a CSV file that you suck into an Excel spreadsheet.

If you're talking about Windows, any of the .NET stuff will do that.

I bet if you dug around hard enough, you could do it entirely in Word 
and Excel, including the DB interface.

There are probably CPAN modules for all that too. I don't do Perl enough 
to know, tho.

Also consider breaking it into different parts. Use the scripting 
language to do the processing, some image command-line tool to generate 
a graphic, something like that...


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