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What is the best programming language to use?

What is the best programming language to use so that I can set up databases to generate workorders and a program to assist in managing those workorders, ie close out codes, times, and the like......I also want to incorporate drop down menus.........

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1. Visual C++ is the most popular. Visual Basic is good for beginners.
2. If you're looking for some web based possibility (either internet or intranet), PHP or Perl would be great for doing what you want to do.
3. C++
4. You can done it in excel but it is good also to use C++..
5. It really depends on how fine tuned features you need. If you want to simply manage inventory and generate work orders, then you need not go beyond Visual Basic(VB). But if you want to make anything for online usage then go for ASP.net for user interface and use c# as core program. Remember, its easier to create Database related applications using VB. Good luck
6. You can do this in many languages. If you are not use to programming in C++ the learning curve to come up to speed would take quite a while. I program in C++, Java, C#, VBasic, python and a lot of others. Visual Basic is quicker to learn and has a lot of features to make it easy to connect to SqlServer and others. It also makes it easy for you to create nice Visual User Interfaces.
7. The best language for YOU to use is one that you know well and can do the job you need done. The best language for the job is worthless to you if it's going to take you a year to become proficient with it, and the project needs to be done by next month. I'd use VB for a desktop app (only because I've been thinking in VB for the past 8 years) or PHP for a web app. Those might be the wrong languages for you to use.
8. 1. Ruby on Rails: Well it is more than a programming language but will take you through all that you want in about 1 day to less than a week to be productive.. on a web based framework and langauge that is simple and easy After that it is your passion and dedication to grind in day in and out.. with Ruby/ Web design/ Rails framework.. perhaps the first 3 months is smooth sailing on what others already have created and stabilized and you hit the rough seas of some unchartered or less written about works.. but by then you would be an expert to roll out on your own.. 2. Smalltalk If you are a smart programmer, or wish to be one long term, be productive with a language that has yet to be beaten in its sheer simplicity, ease of learning, productivity factor, cover an astonishing breadth in technical areas from cool desktop GUIs to web dev, distributed computing , SOA and all the jargon that has any real value.. What are the cons if you may ask: well to begin with the least visible language on the internet searches so to speak to copy - paste code.. Jobs availability, can be ranked at the bottom of the plate amongst the set of known alternatives.. Use as a freeware, well highly limited .. Enterprise support, now limited to one but no where as big as Sun/ MS or the Big Blue.. ( that once did support it.) But what you do here can easily lead you to do well in almost any language or platform.. if you are not ensnared so completely not to migrate... Rest I guess there are umpteen sites that have had this flaming wars on the objective / subjective note on best language.. best is you should give it a spin one each day or two for the next one week to a fortnight.. and decide for your self.. It will surely be worth the time spent..
9. Sounds like you haven't gotten even the start of the requirements. Instead of building your own, you might want to find an open source project that has the functions you want. Then based upon that beginning solution use the language that it is written in.