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And I'll add that my experience with TCL/TK suggests that tcl is more
useful --- only my opinion, but I am fiercly antiperl.


> Tcl supports both regular expressions and associative arrays, and the 
> current Tcl (8.0) also features a JIT compiler.  Depending on your 
> choice of algorithms, Perl and Tcl are generally comparable in speed.
>