Why isn TMDA written in Perl, C, C++, or Java?
TMDA is written in Python, which is a great prototyping language because development speed is very high, the standard library is very rich, and there are many 3rd party modules available. For TMDA this means we can implement any feature that we think of in a relatively short amount of time, get feedback, make changes, etc. This is great for trying out a large number of features, approaches, etc., to see what works, what doesn’t, what is necessary, and what isn’t in a new application. While TMDA-like programs are now popping up all over the place, remember that TMDA was the first of its kind, so there were no other applications to learn from initially.
