Comment by rhelz

chuckle they fact that they can solve their problems with TCL and verilog should be all the proof it takes to conclude that their jobs are easier.

But the guys who really have it hard are guys writing the EDA software. You have to be expert in both chip design and software development. You are writing software to design tomorrow's computers, and it has to run on today's computers. Virtually every problem is NP-complete, and the problem size is growing with Moore's law.

And all your customers just LOOOOVE TCL :-) so you end up writing a lot of that too :-)