[sitkack]

*much delayed*

When two technology vectors merge, it is really nice when the product is simpler and purer rather than the simple union of the two becoming a Simpson's-esque swiss army knife.

It can be dangerous when two similar ideas are too close, for whatever reason they formed to begin with will continue to hold and now you have competing factions along with the problem you are trying to solve. Everyone has to agree before you can start using regexps in your codebase. Oddly specific but true.

I am going to say hold your papers, but this problem is not going to be solved just yet, but in two or three iterations, it will be amazing. It won't just be a hardware description language, that is much too narrow, and it will arrived at in a kind of Erlang way, discovered through necessity, not from a formal system. But who knows?!

I do think that folks should adopt some sort of language above VHDL/Verilog.