The irony is, Tcl stands for Tool Control Language, it was created to control the EDA tools of the time. So it is no coincidence, that it is popular in the EDA

The irony is, Tcl stands for Tool Control Language, it was created to control the EDA tools of the time. So it is no coincidence, that it is popular in the EDA world. I,for myself, quite like it for the intended tasks. The other irony is, considering that article, that the Cadence analog tools (Virtuoso, Allegro) are using a nice Scheme dialect called "Skill" for that purpose. So not the whole EDA world is centered around Tcl.