Cx Language

[vvanders]

Anyone seen this? http://cx-lang.org/

I'm usually a fan of VHDL but this looks interesting, haven't spent enough time to dig in proper yet but I like their implicit FSM generation.

[tggzzz]

Such things have been done many many times in the past, with varying degrees of success.

IMNSHO they need to provided a white paper describing

• the difficulties with current standard practice
• how their features mitigate those difficulties
• why the features they have chosen work well together
• why that set of features is necessary and sufficient

with references to where those features have been implemented successfully in the past. If they can't do that then they have just produced Yet Another Language Repeating Past Mistakes.

A good example of what is necessary is http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/langenv-140151.html i.e. the original Java whitepaper from 1996.

For what it is worth, adopting those principles has been very successful for me. My language trajectory was Algol-60, C, HiLo, Smalltalk, Java, VHDL (and minor HDLs), with diversions into Objective-C, Prolog and various throwaway scripting languages. I avoided falling into the trap of wasting my time with, amongst others, C++, Delphi, Pascal, Modula, PERL, and others I can't instantly recall!

[coppice]

A comparison with all the other C like hardware description languages which have come and gone would seem like an essential baseline to get anyone to take a new one seriously. I couldn't find such a comparison.