> Are there really that many engineers who use TCL? I'd think anyone "new" who > graduated in the last few years would be looking at python for > general-purpose engineering > scripting? >
If we assume engineers start work at age 22 and continue until retirement at age 65 then we must conclude that most engineers did NOT "graduate in the last few years". Using simple assumptions the average engineers would be out of school for 20 years. That said, I'd bet that xcircuit users are very much skewed to younger users. Also I'd bet xcicuit sees far more use by hobbyists working at home than by professional engineers. But even so in any population of users it is not safe to assume most are recent graduates The way to solve this best is to use this: http://www.swig.org/ Using Swig it is easy to support many languages without a lot of effort The best thing that could be done for xcircuit, to make it more popular is 1) Connect it with other software. Make it easy to exchange data 2) Make a very good and robust library, or better give it a way to use several other libraries I hate to say it but very few users care at all the which widget set the software uses or what it is written it. But scripting langes are different and everyone will want to use whatever they already know. Mmy guess is that Java and C are the most widely known. Swig will help. -- ===== Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Xcircuit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.opencircuitdesign.com/mailman/listinfo/xcircuit-dev
