In the industry I work in, Tcl is used extensively as the application language, and it works out well enough in practise (funnily enough, one of the larger play

In the industry I work in, Tcl is used extensively as the application language, and it works out well enough in practise (funnily enough, one of the larger players in this space use a dialect of Scheme.) I guess the greatest advantage Tcl has is of being embedded deep into peoples workflows (changing which tends to be a huge investment both in terms of money, and what is more valuable, time) so it's very difficult to be dislodged from there. Also, once an EE manages to grok "everything is a string", there's absolutely nothing to stop him from writing horrible code :) As for advantages, meh. The only one that really stands out for me is this one: > There aren't a big number of implementations of Tcl, and there is a bigger default library.