What I like about JO is that he acknowledges the deep flaws of Tcl. And there never developed an inward looking bubble of Tcl/Tk advocates - the users were larg

What I like about JO is that he acknowledges the deep flaws of Tcl. And there never developed an inward looking bubble of Tcl/Tk advocates - the users were largely driven by pragmatism; it just got the job done. This contrasted with Larry Wall and ethos/self-delusion of the Perl community - anyone critical of the language or its design was disregarded as simply lacking the intellect to appreciate the "poetry" of Perl - and the the language warts (better described as big pus-weeping boils) were actually features.