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       2025-11-25T01:05:23Z
       
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       Wrote some Tcl for the first time in decades and it feels like it should have been an easy alternative for many Shell scripts.Perl dominated in the 1990s instead, because it was much closer to the typical Shell/sed/AWK script and between CPAN and cgi-bin it was extremely useful.By the time Tcl was on par with Perl (late 1990s), Python started to become popular.Tcl is quite pleasant to write though and people should give it a try (Tcl9 came out in 2024).#shell #tcl #perl