Tcl does not get a lot of love. I think some of it is due to the fact that it is not lisp, it does not have closures, and perhaps the association with the famou

Tcl does not get a lot of love. I think some of it is due to the fact that it is not lisp, it does not have closures, and perhaps the association with the famous Tcl wars. I have always found it a lively little language to code quick and dirty things. Dirty Tcl, isn't particularly dirty (well, it's not particularly quick either, but better than what I expected it to be) and pretty easy to embed. Upvar is sort of nonstandard, but one can get by with it. It is one of the very few interpreted languages that had a nice threading support since ages. But for me the best part has been the community and wiki.tcl.tk. I dont think it is very common in other communities that you get responses in real time. To me Tcl was (I know I will be violently killed for this) a cleaner non-cowboy Perl (as well as Lua of the 90s). If it interests HN readers, Jim, an implementation of Tcl, has closures. http://wiki.tcl.tk/13840 http://wiki.tcl.tk/13840