TCL is an often overlooked language. It has a lot of weirdness, but that's a symptom of it's age I think. I really like it as a language for interactive comman

TCL is an often overlooked language. It has a lot of weirdness, but that's a symptom of it's age I think. I really like it as a language for interactive command-shell type use cases, as opposed to languages like Lua. It feels much closer to a shell than a programming language. If you want some kind of interactive command shell, I would very much vouch for using TCL as opposed to writing your own from scratch. There is also a lightweight/embedded variation, Jim TCL[0] if that's more your bag. It is an interesting choice for writing a parser in, but it makes a certain amount of sense. It's portable, battle-tested, and has surprisingly robust string processing facilities. I have also found it useful as a data format, but rather than writing a parser in TCL, I tend to prefer to define keywords to turn TCL into a DSL. Here is a trivial example I made up for this post: [1]. If you want to see some example code for integrating with C/Python, I have some here[2]. I had planned to give a talk on the subject but it fell through. 0 - http://jim.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/www/www/index.html http://jim.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/www/www/index.html 1 - https://rextester.com/FME19315 https://rextester.com/FME19315 2 - https://github.com/charlesdaniels/teaching-learning/tree/master/libraries/tcl/package https://github.com/charlesdaniels/teaching-learning/tree/mas...