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You mean, the interpreter is available as a library with bindings in many languages?

But then - isn't that the case for other scripting languages these days? Or are they too complex and with "strings attached"?

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I can't speak for other scripting languages, but it's absurdly easy both to embed Tcl as an interpreter in a larger project, and to create a Tcl extension which implements your own commands.

One can leverage Lua in PHP, I think it's handy for user-supplied logic (eg: business rules)

You're using the same words. What is "easy" about embedding TCL that is "difficult" about embedding Perl or Python? Can you spell this out?

Sorry, missed this at the time. But I did say I can't speak for other scripting languages. All I can say is that it was much easier than I was expecting!

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