I would second and thrid the fact to use Tk. I have been using Tk to slap GUIs on my perl code so that users have a recognizable interface and I have recognizable data when they are done. The nice thing is with a verly little work Tk will work the same on Linux, Unix, Max OSX and Windows. And the consitency in my opinion is much better than java. But I digress.

use Tk;
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