what programing language to use?

Since I've been working at my company I've come to understand they have have an issue with the program they use to track out time and when we clock in at work.

I've thought it would be fun to sit down and create as a learning project for myself, a program that can clock all of our workers in and out and and show the vehicles are ready 15 minutes later as soon as the two man team is clocked in.

So, I understand I'll need a database with all the employees in place.

with all the Amulances and there numbers to match the teams.

Now, what I'm looking for is. What would be the best programing language to do this in?

I want it to be fast. I can't have it sit there and chew it's way through data for minutes on end.

I'll also need to be able to work with a database.

We use Kronos now and what I've been able to garner from some people in the know.

Kronos did not like to interact with the access database.

This can't be all THAT hard to do can it?

So if anybody can give some pros and cons about different languages to use I'd really appericiate it.

Thanks
Doug

C++ would be one of the fastest languages you could use, but you'll have to learn a seperate library to connect to a database. Personally, I'd go with C# for this. As long as the .Net framework gets installed on every computer, C# would give you faster speeds than VB and would provide very easy access to a database programmatically.

That's waht I'm leaning towards also.

We we clock in all we do is make a phone call upstairs and somebody punches us in.

Each 2 man team has their assigned ambulance and you're supposed to be up and ready to go 15 minutes after your start time.

ie: Mine start time is 0815 so I'm expected to be on the radio and available at 0830

My ambulance is like number 704 and that's a 14 hour shift.

0815 - 2215 Thurs, Frid, Sat

So I'm going to have to have all the ambulance numbers or shift number and the assigned crew members and then create the program that will show crew members available with auto start time as soon as the 2nd crewman arrives.

Even if I check in 15 minutes early I don't go on the clock until 0815

and then, the Ambulance can't be dispatched untill there's the 2nd team member on board.

I think this should be a good learning experincec and should be fun.. Ummmm Yeah!

So, it's C++ it is then.