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I think you'd be surprised. I went to Caltech (graduated 2014), which is a fairly well known university for their Electrical Engineering program, and I learned
by seattleeng 8y ago
I think you'd be surprised. I went to Caltech (graduated 2014), which is a fairly well known university for their Electrical Engineering program, and I learned ABEL in my Sophomore/Junior year. My instructor, an admittedly old school hardware engineer, was in love with the language and had it as part of our upper level digital design curriculum for a few labs. FWIW, I think it was super intuitive and a hugely valuable learning tool. I suppose that doesn't mean it isn't "dead" for professional purposes, though.
- WalterBright 8y agoThanks very much for the kind words! Perhaps you can ask the professor for who has the copyright on ABEL now? So we can ask the holder if it can be open sourced. Miracles like this do happen - last year Symantec allowed the Symantec C++ compiler to be fully open sourced!
- ptrott2017 8y agoWalter - appears Xilinx are the current copyright holder and ABEL was last supported in the XILINX 10.1 ISE toolset released circa 2008 (Current release is 14.7). Introductory guide can still be found here: https://bit.ly/2NfkLWq https://bit.ly/2NfkLWq
- rch 8y agoThis is the URL behind the shortened link: https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx10/help/iseguide/mergedProjects/abelref/whnjs.htm https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xili...
- WalterBright 8y agoThanks, I'll contact them and see what they have to say.
- TylerH 8y agoBut academia is not the professional world, it's the opposite...
- zkms 8y agoWas it with Glen George?