Subject: Re: New vote on SUAVE or Objective VHDL
From: John Michael Williams (jwill@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Jun 22 2000 - 22:53:37 PDT
Hi Peter.
I think there should be at least one more
alternative to the motion: Neither.
Do we really need a computer program to write a
standards document?
Object-orientation is going out of style, and time's
a wasting.
--
John
jwill@pacbell.net
John Michael Williams
Member, DASC and SA
Peter J. Ashenden wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> As you will recall from discussion on this list, the outcome of the
> previous vote on whether to adopt SUAVE or Objective VHDL was somewhat
> ambiguous. At the recent Working Group meeting, a new vote was called
> for
> to resolve the question.
>
> I therefore put the question:
>
> Which strawman should be adopted as the basis for work towards
> a standard:
>
> ____ SUAVE
>
> ____ Objective-VHDL
>
> When considering the question, please bear in mind that the selected
> proposal will serve as the starting point for the Working Group to
> develop
> a Trial Use standard. The Working Group may choose to add features not
> included in the adopted proposal. For example, should SUAVE be adopted,
> entity/architecture inheritance may be added. Alternatively, should
> Objective VHDL be adopted, type-genericity may be added.
>
> I remind you of the Review Panel's findings and recommendation, which
> can
> be found at:
>
> http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/users/petera/suave/review-report.txt
>
> Links to information about SUAVE and Objective VHDL can be found at:
>
> http://www.eda.org/oovhdl/
>
> Please vote by email to me (petera@cs.adelaide.edu.au) or to Wolfgang
> (nebel@offis.de) by 5pm US-PDT, Friday 7 July 2000.
>
> The formal vote is limited to members of DASC or IEEE Standards
> Association. Please indicate whether you are a member of either. We
> will
> also tally an informal vote of members of the oovhdl@eda.org list, so
> please vote even if you aren't a DASC or IEEE-SA member. Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
>
> PA
> --
> Dr. Peter J. Ashenden Email: petera@cs.adelaide.edu.au
> Dept. Computer Science peter.ashenden@acm.org
> University of Adelaide peter.ashenden@computer.org
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>
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