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

[Dan McMahill]

al davis wrote:
> 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.

one of those advantages is I'm not sure that java is as widely ported as 
c++.

-Dan