On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:08:32 +0200, you wrote:

>>Under the hood C++ treats references as pointers.  What else could they
>>be :-)
>
>Onions ? ;-)
>
>BTW one of the most often seen 'bad C' cases (including by me) come from
>people who have done assembly and then try their evil hacks on C, while
>ignoring the structured nature of C, which is wrong. It takes time to
>shake a habit (speaking from experience).
>
>Peter
Depends on the application. IMO No-one should try using C on a small
micro until they've done a fair bit of assembly first - that way they
get a good feel for the hardware, understand how to best use the
limited resources available, and be able to tell if the compiler is
generating sensible-sized code.=20

I'd bet that any assembler-to-C convert would almost always produce
smaller code than a C 'purist'. OK the code may not look as pretty,
but pretty code isn't a lot of use if it doesn't fit the chip!

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