Tcl for Web Nerds

I have been really fascinated with TCL lately, and I&#x27;ve been working it into projects as a replacement for shell scripts for writing config files or automating server setup. I still feel like I should be using python though, and that I only use TCL as a &quot;novelty&quot;. But how can you not like a language that can be described in 12 rules? <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.tcl.tk&#x2F;10259" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.tcl.tk&#x2F;10259</a>

Recalls an old blog post by antirez: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;antirez.com&#x2F;articoli&#x2F;tclmisunderstood.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;antirez.com&#x2F;articoli&#x2F;tclmisunderstood.html</a>

wow I haven&#x27;t heard of TCL for years (excluding TCL&#x2F;TK of course), I used to run a large patient management system across a hospital system that was built on TCL and ran on top of Solaris (5 from memory). While the software itself was antiquated for the time (2011~) it was pretty solid and fast despite running on relatively low spec hardware for the number of clients. I remember the &#x27;upgrade&#x27; path was a Windows app that other than providing a more user friendly interface what was essentially providing the same functionality with the addition of a mouse curser required a hardware of a factor of something like at least 40 times the performance to run at a similar scale.