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> I am not a programmer, but I can fudge things when I try. Some simple C or
> Python is not a problem, but I always hit a wall when it comes to UI. Seems
> there is lots of code required to build and operate the interface. So
> really, I want something like Python or PHP, and a really simple UI
> construction like HTML/CSS.
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In that case then what you want is a RESTful interface to a simple database.
CouchDB is a tiny document database with an HTTP restful interface and
simple management interface all done in a web browser on your local machine.
Using any language or tool that can use simple HTTP GET/PUT commands, you
can construct a dataset and read from it. Javascript, Python, Ruby, PHP,
even curl can do this right now for you.
With CouchDB and Javascript you can create a database with a simple
interface all in HTML.
Here is a little intro:
http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/tour.html
here is the RESTful api documentation:
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/
OR LibreOffice base, which has it's own database format, you can also
connect to various other databases including SQLite (using an ODBC driver).
Rich
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