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[Actor]

What modern language would you recommend for a non-event driven program? The program needs to run on a PC or Mac. The input is comma delimited data. The output is to be a report.

[WingedPanther]

Most any language can create a non-event driven program.

[Actor]

WingedPanther said:

Most any language can create a non-event driven program.

For example?

[WingedPanther]

keeping the PC/Mac requirement in mind... C, C++, Java, Lazarus, Python, PHP, Perl, FreePascal, etc, etc, etc. If it's a language that compiles on both platforms, you can use it for what you want to do.

[Actor]

WingedPanther said:

keeping the PC/Mac requirement in mind... C, C++, Java, Lazarus, Python, PHP, Perl, FreePascal, etc, etc, etc. If it's a language that compiles on both platforms, you can use it for what you want to do.

What I need is a program that does not prompt for the input file name every time it runs, i.e., something similar to command line parameters in DOS. The reason I need this is because I frequently have hundreds of files to process and typing in all the file names is prohibitive.

And to clarify, I don't need the program to run on both PC and Mac, just one or the other.

[WingedPanther]

Again, most of the languages I mentioned can do that. You just need to pick one and start learning it.