Ok, I read this article that compares several scripting languages but I 
lost the link. Now I looked it up and I found it. Well worth reading 
imho:

http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprt_computer2000.pdf

(in English of course). Imho the following two tables in this document 
are highly relevant:

1. "source text productivity [LOC/hour]"
2. "total time for programming [hours]"

The only thing I'd like to add is, *none* of the languages are compared 
in the context of a gui application, *but* tcl/tk would come out at the 
same place at least in the two tables indicated above if the comparison 
would be for graphical programs. For example, adding a full gui to any 
of the tcl programs compared in the article would add only 20 or so 
lines of tcl to the program.

Peter

(who used and uses Perl and some Pyhton but prefers to *script* guis in 
Tcl/Tk)


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