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this guy needs to learn more Verilog

That's not a bad thing.

Maybe this is why a Lisp processor doesn't exist. Not only do you have to know Lisp well, which only a minority of programmers do, but you also need to want to know hardware. Which is something software people don't want to do. This guy already has a leg up.

For some strange reason I can't explain it's easier to imagine a software guy building hardware than a hardware guy writing a Lisp.

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That seems odd when you consider that a Lisp can be implemented in, what, a couple hundred lines of C? All the guys who can design a processor know how to program, and it's not like Lisp is totally magical.

Now, most people who do primarily hardware work probably aren't that interested in Lisp, because there's not really much Lisp focus out there. I'm a computer engineer, I know how to write HDL and lay silicon, I like Lisp... actually it would be a pretty fun project to do in an FPGA.

They know how to program. Do they know what to program?

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