[Malvern] Knoppix

[andy at dragonfly.demon.co.uk]

>>>>> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, "ianpascoe" == ian.pascoe at bt.com wrote:

  ianpascoe> Building on this shaky ground is there anything that is "tailored"
  ianpascoe> for database usage combined with a decent front end programming
  ianpascoe> system?  I assume that there are such things as SQL drivers or
  ianpascoe> equivilant.

  ianpascoe> Geoff I know that you like to tipple in the realms of Pascal and C
  ianpascoe> but are there any other major programming tools that are written
  ianpascoe> for Linnux.

If I understand you correctly then the answer is YES. Both Python and Perl have 
interfaces to mySQL and Postgres, as does PHP if you want a web based front end.

  ianpascoe> And the last question is how transportable is code written under
  ianpascoe> one OS derivitive to another.

If you are careful with your coding, perl, python and php will run on windows, 
mac and most varients of UNIX.

l8z

andy

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