Because C, assembly and machine code are all too slow and full of useless abstraction bullshit.
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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.