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I suspect your experience with Tcl is a bit old. Tcl finally standardized on a single core OO library several years ago.

The quoting issues can be a pain, but if you learn to treat it like a language rather than extended shell, you learn the tricks to avoid escaping/quoting issues.

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My experience with TCL is from scripting tools which picked it as an extension language many years ago. Tools like that have their own object-like systems and are likely not going to migrate, ever.

Maybe if TCL had a single standard OO library in the late 90s it would have been more successful? But I still think that languages with native OO constructs are much better that a shell-like string-oriented interpreter.

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