That’s a very good suggestion.   Follow-up on it right away.   Other academic departments might be able to help you, too.   Maybe there’s a graduate student in the computer-science department ... and a professor who can assign him/her a little (more...) “grunt work” to do on your behalf.

So... javascript, php, perl, or python? Any advice?

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Our Apache web hosting infrastructure supports php, perl and python. It does not support C.

I would guess that this rules out Javascript.

Also, this site's name being Perlmonks, I'm not sure what kind of answer you expect. Personally, I would make the answer depend on local factors, like availablility of local people who understand the target language. A target language is usually easier to change than the people you have available for support.

Why would that rule out Javascript? Anything that runs on the client side should be fine.

If you follow the thread back, you'll see that I submitted the question to this site because I was originally intent on converting the script to Perl. But now I'm pretty sure that Javascript is the way to go. It's really just a form validation problem.

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