On Mar 3, 12:12*pm, "Tom Dacon"
wrote:
Ed, at the risk of starting a firestorm if there are any Java or C#
programmers lurking on this ng...

If the shop he works in uses Microsoft technologies, VB.Net (Visual Basic
.Net) would be a pretty good starting point.
...

Tom Dacon
Dacon Software Consulting

Visual Studio Express is the free evaluation version:
http://www.microsoft.com/express/

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