Re: FOSS equivalents of OLD database and spreadsheet tools?

From	Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: FOSS equivalents of OLD database and spreadsheet tools?
Date	2020-07-27 21:50 +0200
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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?

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FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-25 19:40 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2020-07-25 21:00 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-25 21:50 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 14:10 +0200
      Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-27 17:20 +0200
        Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 17:40 +0200
          Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-27 21:50 +0200
            Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-27 22:00 +0200
              Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 22:10 +0200
              Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-27 22:10 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-27 22:30 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-27 23:50 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-27 23:40 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-27 23:50 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-27 23:50 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 09:00 +0200
            Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-28 00:30 +0200
              Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-28 04:00 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 05:00 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 05:10 +0200
                Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2020-07-28 09:20 +0200
        Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-27 17:50 +0200
        Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-27 18:10 +0200
        Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2020-07-27 18:40 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-25 21:10 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2020-07-25 21:30 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-25 22:30 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-26 00:00 +0200
      Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-26 10:00 +0200
        Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-07-26 12:10 +0200
          Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-26 15:30 +0200
          Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-27 09:10 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-25 22:30 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-07-25 23:00 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-26 16:30 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-26 16:50 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-26 20:00 +0200
      Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-26 20:20 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Ajith R <ajithramayyan@yahoo.co.in> - 2020-07-27 16:20 +0200
  Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-07-27 17:20 +0200
    [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-29 11:50 +0200
      Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-07-29 12:20 +0200
      Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-29 13:20 +0200
        Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-29 14:10 +0200
          Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-29 22:10 +0200
            Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-30 11:40 +0200
          Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2020-07-30 22:20 +0200
      Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-07-30 11:30 +0200
        Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-30 13:20 +0200
          Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2020-07-30 16:20 +0200
        Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> - 2020-07-30 17:00 +0200
          Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-30 17:10 +0200
          Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and  spreadsheet tools? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-07-30 19:40 +0200
    Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-30 14:50 +0200
      Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet          tools? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-07-30 15:10 +0200
        Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-07-30 16:10 +0200
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        Re: Example(s) of recutils project flow? - was [FOSS equivalents of  *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2020-08-07 14:40 +0200
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