HWPL is a HardwareDescriptionLanguage, which has sometimes been compared with FortranLanguage.
As an example of a 4-bit counter:
MODULE MAIN {.CLK,.RST,.OUT}: BEGIN
WIRE {.CLK,.RST};
REGISTER .OUT(#3);
LATCH .RST SET .OUT TO -0;
TRIGGER .CLK SET .OUT TO INC(.OUT) WHEN ~.RST;
END