Cinderella languages: Tcl and Perl: Uninvited belles of the enterprise ball, by Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz, 1999-08-01, describes the historical role of scripting among database programmers and administrators, and particularly how the advent of languges like Tcl and Perl played into the story. Tom Poindexter's sybtcl and Oratcl are used to illustrate the situation.