Eh, I don't know. I wouldn't choose Tcl today for such a use case, maybe Lua. But you could certainly do worse than Tcl. Like a half-thought out custom language

Eh, I don't know. I wouldn't choose Tcl today for such a use case, maybe Lua. But you could certainly do worse than Tcl. Like a half-thought out custom language. Anyone ever coded nastran DMAP? Or Tex macros? I'd be ecstatic to have TCL over that. I've seen a materials testing machine whose method to script custom test sequences was a "programming language" that was displayed as text but you couldn't actually type things in. You'd have to select constructs such as a for loop or conditional from a drop down box, then a dialog would appear asking you for the parameters of the loop (start, end, etc). Actually, I think I even prefer Tcl to Excel's VBA.