Re: [myhdl-list] Migen logic design toolbox - now with simulator

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

On 03/12/2012 11:24 PM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq wrote:
> On 03/12/2012 10:44 PM, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
>> As for a Migen/MyHDL merger, stop insulting our intelligence here,
>> we are engineers. It is your good right to think the event-driven
>> paradigm is the wrong choice. But of course you and I know damn
>> well that the paradigm choice is the fundamental design decision
>> behind an HDL. If you make a fundamentally different decision,
>> than*that*  is the reason why a "merge" is not possible, not
>> our intransigence.
>
> Oh. You lack imagination.

Probably, but not a sense of aesthetics I hope. If you say
in the Migen manual that Migen "differs from MyHDL in
fundamental ways" (and on this you are absolutely right),
it is quite obvious that a "merger" would feel ugly,
awkward and confusing.  

I don't intend to create a new SystemVerilog.

Let me add that "differs" is even too weak. Migen goes
fundamentally against the essence of what MyHDL wants
to be and its most relevant features and innovations.
I think this should be obvious to anyone who takes the
trouble of reading the (relevant parts of) the Migen
manual. However, if there are less experienced MyHDL-ers
who would like to hear a detailed assessment on
why I say this, I will do so as an educational exercise
in what HDL-based design is about (in my book).

Jan

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