From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   BGB  wrote:   
      
   (snip)   
      
   > I vaguely remember a time when compilers tended to cost money, and   
   > weren't exactly cheap.   
      
   The design software for both Xilinx and Altera FPGAs, which among   
   other things includes VHDL and Verilog parsers, is now free, except   
   for the high-end devices. (Presumably like in the early days of   
   computing, supported by selling hardware.)   
      
   It wasn't always that way, and should be pretty much unrelated   
   to FSF and GCC.   
      
   For that matter, consider web browsers as HTML interpreters.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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