SV: Re: SV: Re: [sdiy] Xilinx 3E board comments

[Rainer Buchty]

>Yeap. BASIC still haunts us thanks to <fill in blank>.

Why haunting?

Honestly, I think that many more people would go into programming if it 
still were that easy as it was back in the good old times[tm] with BASIC 
on your favorite home computer.

Niklaus Wirth may object BASIC and seeing it as an instrument of the 
devil; but its purpose never was to teach people structural programming.

Its purpose was to give the average Joe an easy to learn, easy to use 
programming language. Which it doubtlessly was.

>I am such an old fart that I still program in C, thinks about
>fundamental algorithms and consider dataflows.

Just look at Stroustrup's "C++ Programming". A bible of several hundred 
pages long just to get the essence of C++. A language which needs a that 
thorough *introduction* is flawed by design...

I also prefer C, it's my favorite macro assembler :)

>You know... if you get your hands on some hardware, there is some itsy
>titsy teenee whieenee DSP on a PCB in a box which breaks while just
>looking at it. No more propper contacts like XLR, no more flashing of
>lights when you turn it on (they flash constantly now... ) so no...
>it's not me! :o)

Get a Xilinx ML403 and figure out under which circumstances it likes to 
boot what from the Flash card and when not :)

Rainer