HDL vs. schematics (was Re: ebay - cardamatic)

[Eric Smith]

I wrote:
> For a complicated system, I find well-written HDL code to be easier to
> understand than schematics.      ^^^^^^^^^^^^     ^^^^

Tom wrote:
> Umm, Eric, your standards are likely too high :-) "well written"
> is the key to any of it. I've seen great code in FORTRAN IV and
> assembler macros and BASIC, just not very often :-)

And there are well-drawn schematics that are a joy to use, and
spaghetti schematics that are almost totally useless.

Eric