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

[Christopher F. <chr...@gm...>]

On 9/17/2012 4:44 AM, Jan Decaluwe wrote:
> On 09/12/2012 04:15 PM, Christopher Felton wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else read the blog on APP?  Anyone read the comments?
>>
>> As usual, I think the blog post Jan D. wrote is very good.  Jan has a
>> good ability of explaining concepts.
>
> Thanks for the encouraging words. Unfortunately, not everyone
> shares this opinion.
>
> I didn't feel like it was a resounding success. As usual, I
> was not prepared for the amount of nonsense that you can get
> as feedback. The "conventional wisdom" is extremely strong.
> So strong in fact, that people go as far as calling my
> carefully crafted post as "misleading" and a "disservice",
> instead of as an invitation for fresh, independent thinking.

Your original thought is probably correct; you sparked interest in MyHDL 
to a few who are not vocal on the message board.  And you taught a ton 
of readers more about their current HDL.

The lack of interest for something new / different is odd.  None of the 
commentors made had good technical rebuttals to the post.  If there was 
technical content it was more about being defensive about their current 
HDL.  I am suprised at the number of people that view Python as a 
scripting language.

The "misleading" and "disservice" is ridiculous.  Even if someone does 
not want to learn Python/MyHDL they can learn a lot about their own HDL 
from the information.

>
> When something like that happens, I tend to forget the lessons
> I try to teach myself and others, and I let everyone know that
> I don't find such a qualification acceptable.
>
> A problem with APP is that it sends out confusing messages.
> The quality of the contributions is very uneven, especially
> in the comment sections. Some total newbies in HDL design
> are listed as guru, and vice versa. How is novice supposed
> to know what information to trust?

There's a couple technical issues with the site, as you mention, in the 
comments sections users get an arbitrary "user rank".  Which appears to 
be based on the number of comments you post (not the quality of the 
comments).  Second, the comment "threading view" is useless.  If you get 
beyond a couple response in a thread the comments reduce to less than a 
word per line.  Not having a threaded view makes it difficult to follow 
the different conversations.  But the site is young, I imagine it can 
improve these deficiencies.

>
> Anyway, I have a new blog post almost ready. Let's try again.
>

I look forward to a new post and it will be interesting to see the 
responses :)

Regards,
Chris