I spend a lot of time using Tcl (I have to) and I spend almost as much time wishing I could be using Perl instead. This is partly because of weirdness, as described by the author of this article, and partly because I routinely run into things that seem to be far more difficult to do in Tcl, than they ever would be in Perl.

Can I get one of the Tcl adherents in this thread to comment- have I got things completely wrong? Need I simply become better with Tcl? Or does it truly lack things like powerful string handling and hash tables?