Personally, Tcl is by far my favorite language to program in. While I admit it's not the right tool for every job, but I feel a great sense of job when it IS th

Personally, Tcl is by far my favorite language to program in. While I admit it's not the right tool for every job, but I feel a great sense of job when it IS the right tool because writing code in it always makes me happy. When I'm writing pseudo-code for someone, I almost always wind up writing something that looks like Tcl (which a bit of OO/functional mixed in). I think there's a number of reasons why I enjoy it so much: - I find it's minimal syntax very easy to work with (for normal cases, admittedly it has it's warts) - I've been using it so long (since about '95) that I tend to "think in Tcl" - The ability to add new control structures to the language makes simplifying other code (ie, adding try/catch/finally to the language yourself) amazing. It's somewhat lisp-like (though not as powerful) My use of Tcl over the years has spanned many different environments - Interacting/automating network hardware tasks (SNMP, Expect, device scripting) - AOLServer - Vignette - Personal tasks (lots of them) - (minor) modifications to the core - Plugins/Scripting for various other programs