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jgw on Dec 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tcl the misunderstood (2006)

TCL is still used extensively in the EDA (Electronic Design Automation, i.e. hardware design) industry.

As someone who works in the EDA industry, I can't say that our adoption of a given technology is exactly an endorsement!

dfox on Dec 14, 2012 [–]

Compared to peculiarities of user interface and general buggyness of most EDA packages I've seen all gotchas in Tcl's syntax are pretty insignificant.

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