unix script to get menu and screens

[jchoy]

Hi. I read an old unix book on /rdb relational table programming and it said I should avoid using C and try to do stuff in unix shell script as much as possible. The auther might be right at that time but can perl do menus and display screens in an unix session ? I want to code some simple unix scripts to produce simple menus and screens to help me and non-programmer users to become more productive in the unix command sesson. I think it can be done in unix shell script but sure if perl can do it too. Can anyone point me a good website or code me the skeleton in scripts to get me started ? No gui, just simple menu selection and screen output to extract response from users in command mode in the terminal. Not xterm yet. I want to learn the commands and familar with unix scripts first, then xwindows.