Well that'll open up a thousand different answers <grin>.

You can't use Visual 'C' as apart from header files etc the 'C'
compilers for PIC's are 'C' like on the Embedded Website someone=

claims to have produced a C++ for PICs', There is also C2C=
 available
from Matrix Multimedia or OPTAMA. Wouters JAL is a Pascal/C sort=
 of
compiler ansd all though you said 'C' there is actually a very=
 good
Pascal compiler from a German website produces very tight files.=
 Not
supported anymore unfortunately.

I would say from a hobby point of view CCS is perhaps the most=
 widely
known, I use Wiz-C from Forest (full 30 day working demo=
 available
restricted to F877 part).

For professional use apart from the two above I would assume IARs=
 or
Hi-Tech 'C' would be the most popular.

Colin
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cdb, bodgy1@optusnet.com.au on 21/08/2002

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