Looking for balanced critique of Perl

[Craig Ruff]

In article <SUA45BF at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>One thing I have found useful is John Ousterhout's TCL: Tool Command
>Language. ...

I used TCL as part of a library on a project, and it turned out to be useful.
However, I would have liked to use a subroutine callable version of perl
instead! Then I wouldn't have had to add all sorts of additional functions
to TCL.
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