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by AshamedCaptain 998 days ago
> yes everyone has their favorite tcl scripts for vivado or intel or whatever but none of them are transferrable to yosys irrespective of that fact that yosys supports tcl.

But still it is much easier to have one Tcl script with conditionals targeting all the tools than a myriad scripts in various language-of-the-week. Tcl is just good enough, and extremely "well known".
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mathisfun123 998 days ago
> various language-of-the-week

Python is a "language of the week"? While absolutely no one uses tcl except EDA.

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AshamedCaptain 998 days ago
Yes it is. Some time ago this discussion would have been about Perl, some more time ago it would have been about C shell. If you jumped on all thee languages you'd be in a much terrible situation than you are now. And we are literally talking about EDA here, where you can find way more engineers who know C shell than engineers who know Sh or Bash (or Python).
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