2. Emerging concepts
The following chronological overview is not intended to be a history of electronic circuit description languages. It is, however, useful for understanding current standards, their qualities and shortcomings.
Although syntactically related to programming languages, HDLs differ radically in the two terms Hardware and Description: these languages are intended for hardware, not software. Their function is declarative and descriptive, not algorithmic or executable. Although they implicitly contain a behavior model, this is much more general than the linear sequential model of program execution, and even that of parallel programming, which appeared later. This behavior model may belong to each of the categories described in paragraph
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