Re:The Hardware Renaissance
by cmccabe on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @10:47PM
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I used Verilog a little bit in college, while studying for my EE degree. It didn't seem like a bad language. It was a weird blend of register transfer-level stuff and C-like pseudocode stuff.
It sounds like Verilog fell prey to the C++ philosophy of language design-- just keep adding anything that sounds remotely like a good idea to the core language. If it interacts poorly with what's already there, that's just too bad.
Unfortunately, new programming languages are NOT a good startup idea, in any field. Also, if people are paying 5 and 6 figures for tools in SystemVerilog, change is going to be slow.
It sounds like Verilog fell prey to the C++ philosophy of language design-- just keep adding anything that sounds remotely like a good idea to the core language. If it interacts poorly with what's already there, that's just too bad.
Unfortunately, new programming languages are NOT a good startup idea, in any field. Also, if people are paying 5 and 6 figures for tools in SystemVerilog, change is going to be slow.