> 3) Tcl as alternative of shell script is great, for a number of reasons: from the [glob] command to an [exec] command that is able to mimic a lot of what a shell can do. See the Redis unit test for an example of scripting stuff with Tcl.
The thing TCL doesn't have are pipes. Not even Unix pipes, just some way of chaining little blocks together, so that complexity extends rightward, as you type.
The thing TCL doesn't have are pipes. Not even Unix pipes, just some way of chaining little blocks together, so that complexity extends rightward, as you type.