According to this report, Tcl/Tk and Expect are used at the US DOD: http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf although they don't go into the specifics. ----- Tcl 8.3 is blessed by DII COE [http://diicoe.disa.mil/coe/] as a COE Product. This effectively means that you can use acquire this software from COE. Perl is the only other scripting language listed (as of COE Version 4.6 Build List for Solaris/Windows/HPUX 09Jan03).