So true. I used to manage a design verification business that made very good money consulting for companies' in-house design groups. Most of what we did was wri

So true. I used to manage a design verification business that made very good money consulting for companies' in-house design groups. Most of what we did was write Tcl and Perl scripts to glue together tools. Our mojo was that we had seen so many examples of design flows that had terrible tool integration and had to be fixed with one-off scripts, and as a result had built up a large library of scripts that could be be quickly tweaked to fix the next customer's problems. It felt a lot like working as a plumber to clean old clogged drains, a pretty dirty business.