Because C, assembly and machine code are all too slow and full of useless abstraction bullshit.
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Anonymous2007-10-18 14:04
Too bad only a subset of VHDL can be "compiled" to hardware, requiring long experience with the language too create anything remotely advanced.
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Anonymous2007-10-19 2:05
Verilog, thanks.
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Anonymous2007-10-19 2:15
VHDL and Verilog both are pretty fail as languages.
Don't believe me? Head on over to opensparc.net and take a look at long reams of cut'n'paste. No wonder that nut Chuck Moore was able to make a CPU on his own.
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Anonymous2007-10-19 11:17
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Yes, that's because they aren't full of useless abstraction bullshit. Modern computers have plenty of both memory and storage. Why should your code have to reuse the same definition several times, when that is something all modern editors can handle with copy/paste?
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Anonymous2007-10-22 5:36
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It's not "abstraction bullshit", it's ABSTRACT BULLSHITE.
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Anonymous2007-10-23 5:47
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Not really experience with the language but experience with hardware. As you said only a small subset can be synthesized into hardware, so you can easily learn everything needed language-wise within a few days. But what you can't learn within a few days and many people likely never learn is how to map problems into hardware.
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I love working on tedious signal routing, signal timing and manipulating circuit logic because actually implementing high level software logic is a waste of time.