I both like to use Tcl and Lisp. Tcl and Tk I use for smaller tools and Lisp for larger application programming. While the Tcl syntax indeed is a big rough, its

I both like to use Tcl and Lisp. Tcl and Tk I use for smaller tools and Lisp for larger application programming. While the Tcl syntax indeed is a big rough, its also very simple - I can strongly recommend to read Ousterhouts Tcl book for insights. It is also remarkable, that Tcl is one of the few languages that like Lisp allow the user to define arbitrary syntax elements (e.g. you could rebuild if, for, ...) in the language itself. This is a very powerful feature which allows you to create new abstractions the original language designer did not build in. Beyond that, Tcl comes with a rather complete runtime, and using tclkit, you can very easily create standalone and small (<2M) installation-free packages out of your program. This is very valuable, especially if you have to distribute to Windows. This is where Tcl easily pulls ahead of a lot of languages. And often I use Tk for the user interface of my Lisp programs via Ltk, which brings both together.