I take your comment to mean that the damage is caused by the choice of embedded scripting language being Tcl, rather than the fact that EDA engineers aren't sof

I take your comment to mean that the damage is caused by the choice of embedded scripting language being Tcl, rather than the fact that EDA engineers aren't software engineers and don't build testable, maintainable, reliable code bases. What would have been a better choice? Lisp, as in AutoCad? Something else?