Yeah, that may be why it became popular in CAE/EDA tools, one of the the few places it remains used these days. IMO Tcl works well for that use case, but it oft

Yeah, that may be why it became popular in CAE/EDA tools, one of the the few places it remains used these days. IMO Tcl works well for that use case, but it often catches shit from people who've had to use it. I think it's either because they misunderstand the language (as in the article, but also not that people who use CAE or EDA tools may have very little programming background) or that the vendor APIs provided to interact with the tool are very poorly designed (which I have definitely experienced).