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From: cheebie@sexy.and.smart.net (Brian "Cheebie" Merchant)
Subject: Re: ADA - VHDL
Date: 1996/07/15
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Date: 1996-07-15T00:00:00+00:00
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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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