On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:23 PM, John Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2008, at 8:39 PM, Dan McMahill wrote: > >> I guess I haven't found the fog to be any thicker or clearer than any >> number of programming languages. > > It takes Kundert and Zinke *43 pages* (mostly of sales pitch) before > they actually get to a circuit in their Verilog-AMS book.
I read through the pdf excerpts on the webpage and didn't find what I read that bad as the book is targeted towards readers with little or no experience with HDL modelling. 43 pages out of 260 may be a little too much, though. > > I learned enough Fortran to write my first program (a simple > numerical integration code) from a six page mimeographed handout... Isn't Fortran pretty simple? It is a bit comparing nuts and bolts to to a truck as numerical calculus is just a part of the game. You got to give people a bit motivation *why* taking the effort to spend time on learning a new way of circuit modelling. With Fortran you had either pen and paper or the computer and a simple programming language. No concepts, just plain algorithms. But maybe I am wrong. -- Svenn _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list geda-dev@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
