[Xcircuit-dev] insertparam without tcl

[Svenn Are Bjerkem]

On Sunday 04 June 2006 19:59, ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov wrote:
> Well, no, actually.  I'm just very used to the look and feel of the
> old interface.  Plus, while I have used Tcl, it has always seemed
> like a horrible little language [*].  I have learned a little Python,
> and it's a substantially better language.

For programming, yes -- maybe, for embedding in an application, specially an 
EDA one, no -- in my opinion. Tcl just "seem" more right on a command line 
than python. 

I have a problem with the interface, even the old one. On one side the concept 
of xcircuit fits the need for quick circuit drawing for presentation purpose, 
and at the same time that circuit is ready for simulation. On the other side, 
xcircuit is not quite as friendly to large projects as I would like to see. 
The new tutorial 3 from Tim make things a bit easier, and xcircuit has 
developed a lot regarding symbol creation for existing spice netlists etc.

So far I haven't found any open source schematic capture that works better and 
faster for me than xcircuit, but I know I will need some of the options that 
cadence composer offer: Different cellviews tied to a symbol with vhdl, 
spectre, verilog etc. netlisting capabilities.

-- 
Svenn