Curiously, not the first with this name in the hardware description space. SAIL (all caps), the Stanford AI Language, was an Algol flavored beast from the 70s.

Curiously, not the first with this name in the hardware description space. SAIL (all caps), the Stanford AI Language, was an Algol flavored beast from the 70s. VLSI Technology (eaten by Philips) used it for internal CAD tools like place and route, layout, etc. in the 90s. They liked it so much they had an internal tools group maintaining it, along with very heavy use of ClearCase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIL_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIL_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Technology