Interesting, i thought the problem was the other way around. I find Verilog quite intuitive as is, but the tools are rather crude. I.e. until recently Altera's

Interesting, i thought the problem was the other way around. I find Verilog quite intuitive as is, but the tools are rather crude. I.e. until recently Altera's Quartus felt like a hack some students put together in their spare time - missing basic IDE features, interface bugs that get in the way, poor programmer support on Linux and so on.