Original Article can be read at System-level design languages: to C or not to C?
By Graham Prophet, Editor, EDN Europe -- EDN, 10/14/1999

First the bad news: If you have only recently begun to fully exploit HDL-based design with VHDL or Verilog, it will soon be time to move on and move up to a higher level of abstraction. But the good news is that the languages you'll be using may not be entirely new, and they might even be very familiar.