Re: And16

Posted by WBahn on Mar 04, 2021; 5:29pm
URL: http://nand2tetris-questions-and-answers-forum.52.s1.nabble.com/And16-tp4035770p4035776.html

"Real" HDL languages, such as VHDL and Verilog, have lots of syntactic sugar that allow you to avoid repetition. But those languages and the simulators that support them were professionally developed over many years by significant teams of people. This simulator was developed by one or two people over the course of a semester or so. Also, there's a noticeable learning curve with other HDLs in order to get the equivalent of "Hello World" up and running, whereas with this one you know almost everything you need to know to use it within about ten minutes (there's some tricks regarding sub-busing that take a bit longer to wrap your head around).

I'm very curious to see what changes have been made to the HDL for the Second Edition of the text.