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From: Nick Weavers <weav@hursley.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: ADA - VHDL
Date: 1996/07/22
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Brian Cheebie Merchant wrote:

> As for the other two.  VHDL is, in the end, a way to describe
> *hardware*.  

This doesn't rule out having higher levels of abstraction
to support complex simulation testbenches. The full power of
a software language can surely be exploited here, particularly
some of the OO concepts. 

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