smiletoday

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   by smiletoday 12y ago

   OK. I'd stick with procedural, but if you want OO there are plenty of options, your best choice would depend on how OO intensive your use of OO would be. If you want to use a lot of OO features (inheritance, etc) then a Tcl extension w
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   by smiletoday 12y ago

   The other thing I use Tk for at work is writing test scripts for hardware. Often the hardware has a serial port or an ethernet connection in it somewhere. Tcl includes serial port support, and also has an event loop that supports callbacks
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   by smiletoday 12y ago

   For my modelsim scripts, I usually incorporate a menu in the main modelsim toolbar for my projects. The menu will incorporate menu items for things like library compile, rtl compile, testbench compile, listing all available testbenches for
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   by smiletoday 12y ago

   And that's a good thing. Scripting EDA tools OO style? No thanks. Simple procedural code is all that's needed for that kind of stuff.
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   by smiletoday 12y ago

   Yeah, I'm a hardware engineer, and I've come across code like that! But it's not Tcl's fault that hardware engineers can't write code, or even comments to go with the code.
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   by smiletoday 12y ago

   I guess beauty is in the eye in the beholder. I like the syntax, but you're right that a lot are put off by what the syntax looks. If you get past that however, it's a very, very nice bit of kit.