It's a rare thing nowadays to find a terminal command that is interactive and doesn't provide alternative flags for batch processing. Expect would still be use

It's a rare thing nowadays to find a terminal command that is interactive and doesn't provide alternative flags for batch processing. Expect would still be useful for someone scripting a debugger (for example), but Tcl falls under the close to isoteric language nowadays and it takes less time to just repeat the commands in a readline capable interactive program than find just the right way to script it. Last time I've tried to use expect was when I attempted to build a Tk frontend to the Haskell GHCi debugger (similar to the DDD application), but I got tripped up, from vague memory, on terminal ansi codes, and random lock ups I couldn't pinpoint.