It is.
The title above is an exact quote from correspondence I received in the summer of 2007, and echoes what many, many others have written or said to me.
They're wrong.
Well, they're right, of course: Expect gives them the appearance of dormancy. I haven't researched what all goes into this, but I'm almost certainly there are basic errors of fact afoot.
It's certainly true that Expect, and Tcl more generally, is managed conservatively. It is maintained, though, and with considerable care and expertise. In particular, I know that it remains ahead of what the corresponding Expect extensions for Perl and Python achieve.
I think it'd be great for people to mention here the evidence they have of Expect's stagnation; perhaps we can collaborate to understand better its true state.
Amit says:
I was one the few correspondences of the above issue. A few reasons why I mention this.
1. At least as far as I know, there has only been one book of Expect released and that is by the original author titled "Exploring Expect."
2. It is hard to find updated documentation, blogs, articles, or expect use cases.
3. I couldn't find a list of simple examples for expect. I was looking for something like a cookbook with a bunch small expect scripts. 4. What about pexpect [L2 ]? Are there any advantages to it rather than using regular expect?
Don't get me wrong. I played around with expect and I love its power but I just didn't want to jump into it if there are newer and more powerful alternatives.