On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> > Bytecraft doesn't recognize the type defs - double or float, but thank you
> > for the advice
>
> I don't like compilers on this tiny resource-limited systems, but I don't
> know what amazes me more: That somebody tries to pass off crap like that as
> a commercial product or that somebody else actually bought it.  There has
> got to be a "real" compiler out there for PICs.

Geez, not again.  The compiler I use, while not 100.000 (or 99.999...)
percent ANSI compliant, is a "real" compiler, as evidenced by the wide
variety of "real" code it has produced over the past year and a half for
"real" products using "real" PICs.  I'm sure there are even better ones
available.  So far I have not found a single instance of something that
can't be done, and done well, with the compiler I use -- the one that
shortens my development time and allows me to complete projects in far
less time than I would without it.

Don't just assume that because someone else uses different tools than your
particular favorites that it just won't work or will somehow produce
vastly inferior results.  Some people don't like assemblers, some don't
like C, some don't like BASIC.  In each case, obviously, someone has found
a set of circumstances for which the language or the means of translating
it to machine code is a good fit.

Dale

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