Beware of Tcl! (foo) (Score 1)

Gosh, how about that FUD there? The last project I worked on, I used ISO C to collect data, perl for preliminary postprocessing, and Tcl/Tk for interactive final processing and display.

• Would I want to use ISO C to do heavy string handling?
• Would I want to use Tcl for batch-mode report summarizing?
• Would I want to use perl for an interactive data viewer. (nb: perl/Tk is a bit hard to get installed on various random systems. The syntax is also not to my taste.

The chief point in all that appears above isn't that the answer is uniformly no; it is that the answer is a personal preference. What I'm most productive with is a function of my skill set and tastes. There isn't any data in what I'm replying to, just a lot of dire warnings. Bigotry over technology never got anyone anywhere.

Tcl might not have worked for this guy in this project. He hasn't given any real reasons why, though. Knowing how and why Tcl didn't work out might be interesting and useful.

-BJK