Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to my question. Since you are the only reply I have received, I ask, "Is this the wrong forum for my question?"
Yes, I would need a language that can perform data analysis, and yes, I would need great flexibility in the visual presentation, but I have never heard of the languages: Freemat, Scilab and GNU Octave.
A previous version of the code I need was written in C (prior to C89), and I know enough about that code to modify it, but not to start from scratch. I know basic SQL Plus, and I am starting to learn Visual Basic 2008.
Based on this information, which language do you think would be easy to learn, and meet my data analysis/visual presentation criteria?
Any direction you can provide is greatly appreciated.