Tcl was the first language that I really grokked. Before that, I had tried learning C, C++, and Perl in my spare time. Progress was made, but not enough that I

Tcl was the first language that I really grokked. Before that, I had tried learning C, C++, and Perl in my spare time. Progress was made, but not enough that I was able to write anything that was actually useful on the command line, let alone a GUI. Then someone suggested that I try Tcl/Tk. Literally within 2 hours of first hearing of the language I had a reasonably functional application running on my computer. I do most things in Python these days since it is simply far and away more capable than Tcl but I still think it's an excellent language for a lot of things.