perl which is fast at sorting, which essentially this would do, or a visual type language like squeak? I think would need to look at rendering software like jpeg, gif etc to see how they code the data reductions then I would know what I was looking for. Also licensing issues. It seems that gpl 2 is extremely open but my owners may have a say in that. If I could get a framework GPL would be a faster method to get to a finished product than other license types, which would be my preference.
thanx,
bill