Bob La Quey wrote:
Yeh. I have often wondered if VHDL and the other hardware modeling languages were not a better starting place for a general purpose programming language.
Given that I am currently teaching Verilog to CS students, I'm pretty sure that suggestion is not a good idea. The constructs are too low-level.
Yes, I would like to have a programming language that supports state machines as a first class language construct. A functional language with pattern matching and message passing seems to be pretty good. I liked Erlang a lot, but people didn't seem to like its Prolog-ish-ness. I need to give Gambit (Scheme) and Termite a try.
I am still avoiding Haskell. Its "purity" engenders a few too many warnings from people I trust. I should probably look at one of the ML variants.
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