&gt; Also, I sincerely hope you&#x27;re not trying to synthesize ASICs out of code from a language with constructs like call&#x2F;cc.<p>Many EEs prefer to use functional languages. If you&#x27;re wondering why, spend some quality time with Verilog and VHDL.<p>Edit: Though after looking up call&#x2F;cc, my guess is that hardware compilers don&#x27;t support it.