What do you think?

I used to think Tcl was some kind of old losers' scripting language. Every time I saw Tcl used I thought "ugh, you're doing that?". Out of curiosity, I took a look at some Tcl files. They looked like shell scripting to me, and I thought "piece of shit". But I saw a couple of weird hacks, and Wikipediaed it.

Then I realized Tcl is a weird Lisp. Then I googled, and came up with this interesting article: http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html

So Tcl seems to be an even easier to use Lisp with scoping issues and lack of standard object systems and such. And then there's this:

http://jim.berlios.de/

which solves these issues and can be reduced to 10 KB in a single C file for use in your software.

Now I'm interested on Tcl. Comments, please, I want to know your experiences with this language.

>>8 has never tried to teach their mother to program. Something I like about Python, its large library, stresses programming newbies out. They're better off with something limited, sure they might reinvent a few wheels but at least they won't give up when confronted with a whole Web site of documentation, rather than a slim book for Lua.