''''''Why would I want to use Tcl?'''

'''Power: you can produce working systems in Tcl faster and easier than just about any other language.'''

That's a generalisation, of course.  It's easier to write some classes of programs in different languages.  But here, Tcl wins again:

'''Expressiveness: Tcl enables you to write an interpreter for just about any problem domain very quickly.'''

You can emulate just about any special purpose language.  Not the syntax!  The abstract machine: the set of primitives you need to invoke with the arguments you need to pass.  '''Simplicity: Tcl's syntax is so simple, so unobtrusive, so degenerate that it's nearly invisible.'''

Here's the syntax: command+arguments->result.  There are some other useful bits of syntactic sugar ($var is a variable's value, [script] is the result of evaluating the script.

'''Speed: And it's FAST.'''  Well, actually Tcl ''is'' fast, but as a very high level language it's not going to be *as* fast as writing it in assembler.  So compromise and write the time-sensitive components in C instead:  Intersperse your Tcl programs with C, to make the hot-spots as fast as you like.

Linking Tcl to C is ''child's play'' with [critcl].  Tcl+critcl delivers the best of both worlds.

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