Having written at least one tool in Tcl/IncrTcl, widely used within our company for chip-level verification, I would tend to disagree with you. Using a standar

Having written at least one tool in Tcl/IncrTcl, widely used within our company for chip-level verification, I would tend to disagree with you. Using a standard Tool Command Language to control your EDA Tools, is a wonderful concept. Tcl's numerical handling leaves something to be desired ([expr 1 + 1]), but in other aspects, such as node/list processing, it is stellar.