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On Friday, April 20, 2018 at 7:25:41 AM UTC-6, Dan'l Miller wrote:
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> Also, we always talk about Ada+SPARK.  Why not Ada+VHDL, which is its syntactic cousin, as a smooth and seamless programming environment for FPGA development:  software and netmask in sibling languages?

If I had a good $30 Million or so, I'd totally drop it on hiring out for an Ada+VHDL IDE (not editor, environment) with:
- An IR on the order of AIR or DIANA, though with database-storage as a consideration.
- Implementation of the better-than-Continuous-Integration *AND* versioning solution described in this paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.26.2533&rep=rep1&type=pdf
- Written in 100% Ada; SPARK proving for the compiler-proper.
- Modularized tools, such as pluggable backends.
- Implementation of my Ada Project Manager solution, after rewriting it in pure Ada syntax.
- Application of SPARK provers to VHDL.

And all the above means you could have provers on entire systems, H/W and S/W!