More good points for both sides. This is not making it easier.
I don't need speed as I'm doing offline processing and not worried about lambdas at this point. The unicode is important as I am looking to take Greek and Hebrew text and process it.
It's not so much that I don't want to use a library, but more that I would be unable to use much of the core language for the processing and would have to do everything in/with the library and store my text in Unicode-aware holders rather than just strings.
If that's how it ends up, then so be it, but I'll try TCL first and know that I have Lua as a reasonable fall back plan.
I don't need speed as I'm doing offline processing and not worried about lambdas at this point. The unicode is important as I am looking to take Greek and Hebrew text and process it.