Mike Smith wrote: > > ---------- > > From: Andrew Warren > > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > > Subject: Re: C-compilers for PIC > > Date: Thursday, 12 June 1997 17:37 > > > > I wrote: > > > > > > I gave up on the idea of using the CCS compilers for anything > > > > serious and [have] continued to use MPC. > > > > and Mike Smith replied: > > > > > MPC seems to have its share of detractors, too. > > > > Name one, Mike... Seriously. > > Just have a look at the number of happy, satisfied customers for MPLAB-C - > Here's a quote from the PicList in the past week... > > >> About two weeks ago a Mchip engineer noted that MPLAB-C now also > >> features this code (at last). > > >> I tried Mchip's code yesterday, and it doesn't work (hahahahahahahaha). > >> I had to use the hacked code for a '74 on a '64a. I am SICK, SICK, SICK > of > >> the lack of *ANY* (null, zero, nada, zip) support on MPLAB-C. If it was > >> a freeware compiler, it would have been ok, but we paid (a lot of) good > >> money for it. > > >> The only upgrades we get on MPLAB-C seems to be new random error > >> messages. > > >> If anybody knows of a Mchip email address where I can lodge a formal > >> complaint about this, please mail it to me. > > (Thanks for the quoted material, Tjaart:) No Problem ;) > > > > > I'm not implying that MPC has no detractors, of course; I'm only > > suggesting that a discussion like this should include comments > > from people who've actually used the compilers in question and > > who can point out SPECIFIC shortcomings. > > > > I haven't, and with comments like the above quote and others, am unlikely > to pay the rather high price. Just note that the newer version of MPC is *NOT* anything like MPLAB-C. MPC is a much better product. -- Friendly Regards Tjaart van der Walt mailto:tjaart@wasp.co.za _____________________________________________________________ | Another sun-deprived R&D Engineer slaving away in a dungeon | | WASP International http://wasp.co.za | | GSM and GPS value-added applications | | Voice : +27-(0)11-622-8686 | Fax : +27-(0)11-622-8973 | |_____________________________________________________________|