Re: gEDA-user: Does anybody know an open source vhdl-ams simulator?

[al davis <ad136@freeelectron.net>]

On Friday 18 May 2007, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote:
> I guess a lot of developers will frown upon this, but I think
> Java and Eclipse is the best fit to develop integrated
> development environments also for electronic circuits. Steven
> Rubin of Staticfreesoft (Electric) also went from c to java
> (via qt3) and found it a whole lot easier to get the things
> right in Java.


If you want to use Eclipse, that's ok.  It a bad idea to require 
it, or any other particular development environment.

If a plug-in interface to Eclipse is useful, that is fine with 
me.  Anything compiled in, even if it can be turned off, even 
if it is off by default, isn't good.

I can understand Steve Rubin's comment that Java is more 
productive that C.  C++ offers most of the same advantages and 
more.  The biggest downside of C++ that I see is that beginners 
can be overwhelmed by it if they try to see it all at once.  
Java is a reasonable subset of C++, with some syntax changes.

I would not be surprised if the reason for choosing Java over 
C++ is pressure from Sun.

After I moved gnucap (then ACS) to C++ from C, things got a 
whole lot easier.  Things got easier again when STL became 
mature enough to use, when templates really worked ....  Even 
the old C++ without all that helped.

The move from Ratfor to C helped a lot too, but that is ancient 
history.

On the other hand ... the ACS move to C++ was one factor in 
spawning NG-spice.


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