roastsquirrel
Re:Chameleons Not Seen by Scientists for Century Found in a Madagascar...
on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @11:46AM (#24990639)
People thought they were extinct, but they were just on holiday
Re:The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
on Thursday July 23, 2020 @04:12PM (#23931732)
Parts of VHDL leave a little to be desired but overall I find it to be a really great language. To the extent I bought Ada 2012 by John Barnes and I kind of like that too after coding in C/C++ etc, but maybe I'm now biased after many years of VHDL coding :) It's not uncommon to see "VHDL is bad" and such like, and I do wonder what the reasons are for those comments.
Re:Tcl: Everything Is a String
on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:40PM (#21381408)
Tcl is good for interacting with a simulator (and other tools) for the same reasons Bash is good for interactive shells, and I think Tcl is the best tool for those jobs.
What is the "could be" that you pine for?
Re:Tcl: Everything Is a String
on Monday October 28, 2019 @04:29PM (#21381300)
The Tcl/Tk documentation is very good, so I read the documentation for those details, eg for lrange,
lrange list first last List must be a valid Tcl list. This command will return a new list consisting of elements first through last, inclusive ... (not put it all here because it goes on a bit :)