Bidirectional bus - noob question

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A lot of people like Verilog because of its similarities with C,

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That was one of the things I thought about when I was choosing between Verilog & VHDL to learn first. My main job is a C++ programmer, so I thought "Verilog's similar to C, cool", but then I thought "hang on, it's for a totally different thing, why do I want it to be similar?".

At least while I'm learning, I'd rather have something a bit stricter so I have to be more precise, and don't really care that it's not like C - in fact, not being like C means that I'm less likely to think like a programmer, which will probably help :-)