I design in HDL for FPGAs (and rarely ASICs). Unfortunately for me, verification and system-level design languages are going down the "object" path (SystemC, System Verilog, etc.) So it's past time ...

Java is the same programming language that had rock star status back in the scary late 90s run-up to the dot com crash. It was heralded as the enabling technology that would take the web to new ...