Re: POLL: Your favourite Tcl features

A lot of my favourite features have already been mentioned, but I would
like
to add:

- string map - most of my text substitutions are really simple!
- the list commands - need I elaborate?
- the ease with which one can explore different programming styles
  (OO, functional, event-driven, pipelines, ...)
- the ease with which one can make other programs jump through hoops
  (see my reaction to another recent thread - about adding Tcl/Tk to
  a C program).
- and in a strange and twisted kind of way, yes, regexp and regsub
  too: they are a necessary tool (but luckily not the only ones!) to
  do the file and text processing that I usually do.

Oh, and of course:

- the pleasant way in which you do not have to know the details of the
OS
  (for instance to retrieve a list of files ...)
- the pleasant way in which you do not have to worry about memory
  management
- the pleasant way in which you do not have to worry that errors
  will get treated "automatically"
- the pleasant community

Regards,

Arjen
Received on Sun Apr 30 02:52:40 2006