You're welcome :-) Indeed I was a bit surprised by some hostile comments, yet they do make good points. I never thought that the post would be posted on Hacker

You're welcome :-) Indeed I was a bit surprised by some hostile comments, yet they do make good points. I never thought that the post would be posted on Hacker News, next time I'll take that into account ^^ Thanks for the links, I actually commented on the article on wired.com yesterday. Regarding the promotion of C~ yes we have started doing that, especially since we made it open source and have started to target everybody who might be interested in designing hardware (on FPGA or ASIC).