Was old and ugly. It's getting better, but that doesn't matter, because people are firmly convinced that it is old and ugly, no matter what the developers have been up to. This is precisely the sort of marketing problem I'm referring to: once you create an impression in people's minds, it takes a hell of a lot of work to correct it, even if the actual problem has largely gone away. The impression remains...

> > Lately, there has been a lot of work to update the Tk look and feel, and it has finally started to bear fruit. However, in terms of marketing, the damage has already been done: the image of "old, crufty Tk" has been firmly planted in countless developers' minds, and no amount of facts are going to displace it in the near future.

> Also, Python is the winner for me because it's syntax resembles C but is a lot easier to write.

Yes, I covered that aspect too:

> > The syntax, for your average programmer who doesn't want to go too far out of their comfort zone, is perhaps a little bit further afield from the C family of languages than they would prefer. Still though, a "human" problem, rather than a technical one. Perhaps, sadly, the message is that you'd better not "scare" people when introducing a new language, by showing people something that doesn't look at least a little bit familiar.

You are apparently one of the many who is a bit scared/confused/whatever by a seed that has fallen a bit farther from the C tree.

As far as the syntax, Tcl is quite elegant, in reality, once you take the time to understand it (which is not much time, as it's also very simple).