Re:Conway's Game of Life on FPGA
by naikrovek on Sunday June 06, 2021 @01:34AM
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> I think the idea was to make it look "familiar" to engineers
I'm not so sure. I'm fairly certain that at least VHDL existed before FPGAs were invented. I think they are programming language-like so that they can be somewhat easily verified for syntax errors and undergo some static analysis.
You are 100% correct that these languages don't match up with the type of work you use these languages for. I find C# and Go (and other languages) to be pretty intuitive in a lot of ways, and HDLs are the exact opposite of intuitive, to me. I am sure it would be easier for me to learn to speak, write, and read Icelandic than it would be for me to learn VHDL or Verilog.
Re:Conway's Game of Life on FPGA
by anyfoo on Sunday June 06, 2021 @05:04AM
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Languages don't have to look like C or Ada in order to do syntax checking and static analysis on them. In fact, the latter arguably works better on languages like Haskell...
I'm not so sure. I'm fairly certain that at least VHDL existed before FPGAs were invented. I think they are programming language-like so that they can be somewhat easily verified for syntax errors and undergo some static analysis.
You are 100% correct that these languages don't match up with the type of work you use these languages for. I find C# and Go (and other languages) to be pretty intuitive in a lot of ways, and HDLs are the exact opposite of intuitive, to me. I am sure it would be easier for me to learn to speak, write, and read Icelandic than it would be for me to learn VHDL or Verilog.