What started my journey? Mainly that a collector gave us this CADC to examine, and it turned out to be more interesting (and complicated) than I expected. As f

What started my journey? Mainly that a collector gave us this CADC to examine, and it turned out to be more interesting (and complicated) than I expected. As far as programming models, yes, the imperative model isn't a good fit here. You can think of the CADC as "purely functional" since the outputs are direct functions of the inputs.