I haven't tried this yet, I've just looked at the examples in the docs. However, I think this could be pretty cool.
I think the combination of the Perl influences with the possibility (which I'm interested in, but haven't proven yet) of using this with Tclkit (a statically linked version of Tcl that can just be copied over for deployment) might make this a nice cross platform replacement for the kind of things I might otherwise want to do in Awk.
Tcl itself is also certainly a good cross platform Awk replacement, but heavy regex stuff seems like it might be a bit more concise with this syntax than in Tcl itself.
Tclkit should work, we haven't tried though. The tcl folks on #tcl on freenode might be able to help.
Tcl doesn't get enough love, the built ins and the libraries provide a pretty rich environment and then you toss in Tk and all the Tk extensions and you have something.
And now you have it all with a C like syntax, kinda cool.
I think the combination of the Perl influences with the possibility (which I'm interested in, but haven't proven yet) of using this with Tclkit (a statically linked version of Tcl that can just be copied over for deployment) might make this a nice cross platform replacement for the kind of things I might otherwise want to do in Awk.
Tcl itself is also certainly a good cross platform Awk replacement, but heavy regex stuff seems like it might be a bit more concise with this syntax than in Tcl itself.