chewie54 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As an electronics engineer I use some very expensive EDA CAD tool >programs that are scriptable using Tcl. I was wondering why these >companies have choose to use Tcl instead of Python. Some of these >are: > > Mentor Graphics ModelTech VHDL and Verilog simulator > Synopsys Design Compiler and Primetime Static Timing Analyzer > Actel FPGA tools.
Well, I recently did a development contract for Mentor, and the RFQ gave me the choice of doing the library binding and diagnostic GUI in either Tcl or Python. Naturally, I chose Python (and wxPython), and both the client and I are quite happy with the result. (Actually, I did a Tcl binding for them as well, and just writing the text scripts reinforced my dislike for it...) -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
