[NTLUG:Discuss] tcl or python

[Brian Koontz]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:20:26AM -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> Tcl is one of those things that is a victim of rumor and circumstance.
> Pretty much 99.9999% of those against Tcl have NO idea what they
> are talking about.  With that said, the damage has been done and
> so the main reason for not chosing Tcl is because the lynch mob
> has stormed the castle and the monster has been forced to flee.

For a number of years I labored away on a Tcl/Tk app called CBB (one
of the first checkbook programs, well before GnuCash came on the
scene). And I use the term "labored" very literally here: The syntax
was odd (for this C/Perl programmer) and I found the Tcl part to be
very dense and difficult to maintain.

Personally, I would not waste time with Tcl/Tk again.  There are so
many other languages out there with consistent syntax (or, in the case
of Perl, not-so-consistent syntax but a lot of module support).  

And no, I really can't recount the horrors of Tcl I experienced,
because I've pretty much purged it from my mind.  

  --Brian