Guy Farebrother wrote:
>
> Would someone be kind enough to recommend which C compiler they feel is
> best to learn C with. I'm sorry if this question seems like which is best,
> but specifically which is best to learn on. I have used assembly for
> several years and recently had the opportunity to have coffee with Matt
> Bonner, who suggested that C would save me substantial time on some of my
> projects. So now I'm preparing to invest in a compiler.
> [snip]

Guy, I didn't have time to finish my statement before the coffee break
at the (Atmel) seminar was over.  I've played with some of the demo
versions of the C compilers out there and finally bought ByteCraft.
Yes, it did speed up my project dramatically (I had to implement more
than a few wierd algorithms).  To your point, though, on which compiler
would be best to learn C (the point I didn't get a chance to repond to):
probably none of them.  Embedded C really only syntactically resembles
K&R or ANSI C - the PIC archives have threads which go into this.  One
of the compilers, though (Hi Tech?) purports to implement the ANSI
standard.  I'm sure someone out there will fill in the blanks.

> Thanks for any assistance.
>
I hope you realise that you've probably started the next BIG thread....

--Matt