Re: [myhdl-list] MyHDL : The Case for a Better HDL

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

On 09/07/2012 05:31 PM, Christopher Felton wrote:
> On 9/7/12 2:25 AM, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
>> On 09/07/2012 03:14 AM, Christopher Felton wrote:
>>> Jan has posted an interesting blog post
>>> "MyHDL : The Case for a Better HDL"
>>> http://bit.ly/ToK6xg at the All Programmable
>>> Planet, http://www.programmableplanet.com/.
>>>
>>> Be sure and check out the post and contribute
>>> to the conversation.
>>
>> Yes, I have been invited by Max Maxfield to become a blogger
>> on that site. I was looking for a good forum to tell
>> "the MyHDL story" for some time, and this looks ideal. It
>> should give us visibility and spur some interesting
>> discussions :-)
>>
>> I'll try to blog every 2 weeks or so.
>>
>
> It is interesting to see the comments to the blog post.  But there has
> not been many "interesting conversations", yet.  There appears to be two
> types of "commentors".  One, those who have very general comments and
> also comments on most of the other blogs in a general way.  They seem to
> have neutral comments, e.g. "it seems interesting".  Or comments for the
> sake of commenting?
>
> Second, are those who seem opposed to the idea and have long post (not
> sure if these long post say much).  But these users "hide" there
> identity, so it is hard to take them serious, was it a drunken rant that
> they were not afraid to post because it had little to no repercussions?
>    Is it worth investing time rebutting their comments?  We have seen on
> this mailing-list a lot of effort can spent with little progress of
> understanding.
>
> I would love to contribute to the conversation, because I agree this
> seems like a good forum to get some interest.  But, I don't know if I
> can invest the time to clearly state my case why I think MyHDL is great
> and explain how my returns from my investment are huge.  I think it will
> drive me crazy not being able to allocate the time and only contribute
> small comments (but this hasn't stopped me in the past, doh).
>
> I look forward to future post and hopefully a following from your
> involvement with the site.  It looks like the first post is generating a
> few comments.

Chris et al:

I think there are some crucial differences with the newsgroup:

First, we will get a lot of visibility by all kinds of people,
not necessarily interested in MyHDL in the first place. We
should take that into account.

Second, we are at the steering wheel. (Well in fact, I am.) I think
there's a big difference in perception between the original blogger
and the commentators. Let's use that power.

Therefore, we should approach this differently than in the newsgroup.

First, remember the politician's attitude: "Any publicity is good
publicity". Let's not worry too much about negative reactions: many
people will think differently. BTW, so far I think reactions are
reasonable and as could be expected.

Second, we have the power to address any specific topics in a blog
with much more visiblity/credibility. Just let me know about
any frustrations!

Personally, I will try to keep comments short and to the point,
and try not to sound defensive - we have a strong case!

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