Rude answer: Look through the archives, it's already been asked quite some
times now. Last time was about two months ago.

Nice answer: I'm using CCS with good results, on the same two PICs.
Crosscompile is easy, just change the header and you're off to go. Also,
excellent support for peripherals and especially the built in serial
bitbanging is delicious. You can always squeeze in a debug output stream on
some pin so you can see debug output, even if you're already using the
hardware serial port. Downside: weird update pricing scheme, irregular
support (in some cases very good, in other non-existant). No built in MPLAB
6 support yet (should be in 6.20), but can be worked around with some crude
batchfiles. www.ccsinfo.com, from the commercial compiler factories, it's in
the lower price range. Around $99 for each PIC family. Updates are very
regular.

Regards,
Claudio

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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]Namens thomasn101
Verzonden: vrijdag 20 december 2002 9:54
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Onderwerp: [PIC]: C compiler recommendation for PICmicro


Hi Everyone,

I have been programming PICs using assembly language for a long time
now.  I think it's time for me to move to high level language, C.

There are many C compilers for C out there and I just don't know which
one is the "best" to buy.  I am thinking of using either the PIC16F877
or the PIC18F452.  Do you have any recommendation?

Thank you in advance!
Regards,
Thomas

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