Timeline for The most mind-bending programming language?
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| Nov 24, 2013 at 9:35 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Added context, etc. |
| Jul 15, 2013 at 14:28 | comment | added | shieldfoss | Yeah, VHDL is freaky if you are not already a programmer and used to working w/ multiple simultaneous blocks. | |
| Mar 17, 2011 at 8:22 | comment | added | user1041 | Being electrical engineer I didn't have much problem with the simultaneity, it was quite a liberation in fact. As for the pain of implementation, well the uP is a niche-solution to specific classes of problems that transform the problem to solution that can be described as algorithms, a concept originally taken from mathematics. A problem with inherent parallelism is among the problems easy solvable and VHDL and FPGA's come in handy at that times. | |
| Jan 10, 2011 at 20:14 | comment | added | timday | I did a little VHDL once. I had a real epiphany moment when I suddenly realized that, as I was adding code, effectively more and more hardware would appear to implement that code and it was all running simultaneously. Like multithreaded programming with truly unlimited simultaneously executing threads; maybe people with access to unlimited nodes on EC2 or map-reduce clusters get a similar buzz. (But shortly afterwards I came to appreciate what a complete pain it is to implement anything non-trivial in these langauges, and ran away). | |
| S Jan 10, 2011 at 5:49 | history | answered | Earlz | CC BY-SA 2.5 | |
| S Jan 10, 2011 at 5:49 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki |