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I'm reminded that Harold Abelson is an electrical engineer and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs contains a digital circuit simulator.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node64.htm...

I'm still hoping for the Cambrian explosion in HDLs we need to see if the technology is to become accessible. Verilog/VHDL are in many ways stuck in the ALGOL era.

I wish yCombinator or equivalent would fund a company or organization that is dedicated to making a complete end-to-end opensource fpga ecosystem. The proprietary tools are crap.

One similarity which springs to mind is that both (functional programming and circuits) can be described with similar mathematical models.

I don't know much of the technical details, but for example see http://conal.net/blog/posts/circuits-as-a-bicartesian-closed...