Mac OSX Application Development

Hey all.
I don't know if this is the proper forum or not, but maybe it is or maybe you can point me in the right direction.
Anyway, I'd like to develop a program for the Mac that mimics a Windows program that is not and probably will never be written for the Mac platform. So I'm bored and thought I'd start researching how to tackle this.
I have been reading about Applescript Studio but I think that will be too simplistic for my design.
I'm thinking one of the C based languages but would like input...C, or C++, or Object-Oriented...what's the difference? Is the difference all in what the program will due or just language differences?
Secondly, I don't care if the application is Cocoa or Carbon, I just want it to work on the Mac platform. So what would be the easiest, but still efficient, way to tackle that?
Basically the program will be a database of records that resembles a glorified spreadsheet (this is, as I said, a previously Windows based applications for pilots allowing us to keep a very nice record of flight times and various other criteria. Very sleek but not enough to keep me in the Windows world).
Any thoughts? Any references?
Thanks for all the help in here!!

rothnd wrote:
Basically the program will be a database of records that resembles a glorified spreadsheet (this is, as I said, a previously Windows based applications for pilots allowing us to keep a very nice record of flight times and various other criteria. Very sleek but not enough to keep me in the Windows world).
Any thoughts? Any references?
First of all, I almost missed your post. You posted this in the "AppleScript" forum which I normally avoid like the plague because I detest AppleScript. But you really aren't talking about AppleScript at all.
What you describe sounds like a basic Core Data application that should be quite easy to do in Objective-C. Do you have a link for the Windows software to compare?
There may be some 4GL solution that would work even better. Bento or RealBASIC might be options.
Also, is this something that you really want to do or something that you would really like to have done. If you really want to do it yourself, I would suggest trying Bento. You can try Objective-C too. If you can't figure it out - no big deal. I couldn't figure out how to pilot a plane on my own. If this project were fairly easy or enough of a demand, some programmer (such as myself) might be interested in writing it.

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