The FPGA software from Xilinx and Altera are scripted with Tcl/Tk.

This. In fact it seems like plenty of hardware-eng tools use Tcl, and looking at all alternatives it's not a bad choice.

With Tcl you get something like a Lisp with a flexible consistent syntax, but less brainy and more pragmatic, and designed to drive other tools.

	▲	justin66 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		My impression many years ago was that it’s really not that bad. I got up and running writing simple programs immediately, and wouldn’t have tried to go outside its capabilities as a simple scripting language.

hollerith 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Thanks for the reply.