have you considered python? it's object orietated, fairly simple and "compiles" into p-code whilst also is fairly portable.

I have. Definitely one of the runners for this. Fairly as in can be d/l and used on a Win9x machine? At the moment I'm seriously considering Java, Python and TCl. Java seems most likely at the moment.

gui wise there's tkinter, wxWindows, gtk, kde, and opengl. oh, and google is built on it.

and that's just the search engine I'm using so much today! :)

Many thanks for all the advice from all parties. I'll have to do a lot more reviewing of each candidate first.

Ricardo

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