Quoting Hell is where you are when you've backed yourself into a corner, and now find yourself escaping escape characters in your programming language. In some languages, this is the natural state of things. In Tcl, it happens when you're just getting started and are still working on getting the big picture of how it all comes together in Tcl. You know you're in quoting hell when your Tcl code begins to look like Perl. Thankfully, unlike some other languages, quoting hell can be mostly avoided in Tcl. To learn how, digest the contents of Tcl Quoting!