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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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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