Tcl is a Toy Language

I just took over some Tcl code at work. What a toy language! The following are some things that are completely wrong about Tcl.

1. "else/elseif" has to be to the right of a brace. It's one thing if you like using this style of idiotic formatting for your if-else statements:

  if { $x == 0 } {
    do_zero()
  } else {
    do_non_zero()
  }

which hides the structure by putting the "else" in a different column than the "if". But for the language to require you to do such a stupid thing is, well, stupid. It's also bad that it requires you to cleverly put the open brace of the "if" on the same line. It's what I'd usually do anyway, but bad requirement.

2. $x is assigned to as "x". How insane is that? You have two names for the same thing, and you can silently do the wrong thing if you set $x "abc".

3. Whitespace is significant in multi-dimensional arrays. Excuse me? $matrix(1, 1) (with a space) is different than $matrix(1,1)?

I could go on, but that's enough ranting for today.