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ameliustoday at 11:03 AM1 replyview on HN

By the way, I'm guessing that Tcl was (is?) big in EDA because John Ousterhout also wrote the EDA tool Magic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(software)


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w4dertoday at 2:22 PM

Tcl's first "release" was in 1988 and Magic was released in 1984, but it seems like John Ousterhout then wrote Tcl to have a common interface across tools [https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/tclHistory.php]. It still is a big thing in EDA, because (in theory) it lets a chip designer run their designs by tools from different vendors