It so happens that the 14th annual European Tcl/Tk users conference just took place [1]. Quick perusal of the event site shows the breadth of uses Tcl is still

It so happens that the 14th annual European Tcl/Tk users conference just took place [1]. Quick perusal of the event site shows the breadth of uses Tcl is still being put to (enthusiastically, by programmers who choose to use it): * nuclear power plant operations * high-performance visualization and analysis of microscopic images. * design analysis of high-resolution camera light sensors. * embedded programming of Cortex-M3 ARM v7-Microcontroller. * satellite control systems. * multi-platform/compiler automated C++ library compilation. * customization of the Fossil VCS. * scripting and visual programming on Android. * communicating sequential process programming. * Linux D-Bus scripting. Slag Tcl all you want, but it's still being used every day by brilliant programmers to ship real products, in environments where reliability is crucial. How does Guile stack up to that? Or any other unfashionable programming language for that matter? Maybe more effort should be put into understanding what these programmers see in Tcl that the critics can't. [1] http://www.eurotcl.tcl3d.org/index.html http://www.eurotcl.tcl3d.org/index.html