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From: cheebie@sexy.and.smart.net (Brian "Cheebie" Merchant)
Subject: Re: ADA - VHDL
Date: 1996/07/15
Date: 1996-07-15T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31ead866.2979882@news.smart.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.837092765@schonberg


Let the log show that Robert Dewar wrote:

>Peter said
>
>"I agree there are a lot of similarities between the languages, but I do
>not understand the reason for many differences. There are things which
>I can not do in VHDL which I can in ADA and for which I see no reason.
> some examples:
>        type new Integer;
>        generics;

Unless there is a nomenclature problem, VHDL has these.  I use them
often.

>        variant records"

As for the other two.  VHDL is, in the end, a way to describe
*hardware*.  There are some extremely useful software construct which
simply do not translate well to hardware.  (recursive structures is one
of these)

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  reply	other threads:[~1996-07-15  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-07-09  0:00 ADA - VHDL P. Cnudde VH14 (8218)
1996-07-09  0:00 ` Jacques Rouillard
1996-07-10  0:00 ` Paul B. Graham
1996-07-10  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-11  0:00     ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-10  0:00   ` Laurent Gasser
1996-07-11  0:00     ` P. Cnudde VH14 (8218)
1996-07-12  0:00       ` Paul B. Graham
1996-07-11  0:00 ` Jens Hansson
1996-07-11  0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
1996-07-11  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-15  0:00   ` Brian "Cheebie" Merchant [this message]
1996-07-16  0:00     ` Stephen A. Bailey
1996-07-16  0:00     ` jos de laender vh14 7461
1996-07-16  0:00     ` P. Cnudde VH14 (8218)
1996-07-22  0:00     ` Nick Weavers
1996-07-12  0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
1996-07-13  0:00   ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-17  0:00 ` Chris Papademetrious
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