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Subject: ( ESNUG 304 #10 308 #1 ) Tcl/Tk Doesn't Cut It; Want Perl Instead
> If you think that this Synopsys Tcl environment is going to bring some of
> the cool features of PrimeTime, you will be disappointed. In reality, it
> is just a Tcl/Tk shell wrapped around dc_shell so the features and
> limitations of dc_shell are still there.
>
> I'm not saying Synopsys is going the wrong direction. It is that they are
> trying to save some of the dc_shell scripts for now by not *integrating*
> Tcl/Tk, just wrapping Tcl/Tk around dc_shell.
>
> - Larrie Carr
> PMC-Sierra, Inc. Vancouver, B.C., Canada
From: Don Reid <donr@hpcvcdo.cv.hp.com>
John,
Does this look like a modern scripting language?
set x [ expr $period / 2 ]
Tcl is a bit better than the current dc_shell language, but only a small
bit. Why couldn't Synopsys have picked perl or one of the other higher
level scripting languages?
I tried to write a histogram routine in tcl, for PrimeTime, it was ugly
and slow. Perl did most of the work in one line with an associatve
array (hash).
- Don Reid
Hewlett Packard, ICBD
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