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Re:SUS Lang: The SUS Hardware Description Language on Monday July 07, 2025 @07:52PM (#44495725)
LLVM never works in EDA.
Re:GPascal – A Blast from the Past (2011) on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:38AM (#43424120)
Read an article about Anders Hejlsberg when I was in high school. I was amazed by the story of him writing Turbo Pascal in assembly.
Re:Why You Should Not Use Tcl (1994) on Sunday July 21, 2024 @01:48AM (#41022721)
"The Tcl scripting language grew out of my work on design tools for integrated circuits at the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1980's. "

History of TCL, https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/tclHistory.php

Still looking forward to the second edition of "Inside the Machine"...
Re:RISC vs. CISC: The Post-RISC Era (1999) on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:28PM (#34255966)
I really enjoy reading Jon's book, inside the machine.
always wonder where is part II.
Re:A First Lesson in Econometrics (1970) [pdf] on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @01:00PM (#29797746)
It seems that ! is missing in equation (12).
Is the original Turbo Pascal open sourced? I would have lots of interest in reading it.