>  From reading the responses, it appears that I need to decide whether to
> learn C or do assembler. On this one, I have no idea!  Perhaps I should
> have asked the group about this one first!
>
> Does C cost more and give better results? I have no desire to program
> anything other than a pic, should I learn assembler and stick
> with MPLAB???

        I strongly recommend you start out with assembler. C glosses over far too
many issues that will come back and bite you in the butt! :) By starting
with assembly (which is completely free and supported by MChip) you'll get a
good understanding of what's going on "under the hood".
        After getting comfortable with asm it's your choice whether to stick with
asm or move to c. c does have the benefit of "hiding" some of the PIC
"quirks", however you can get just as careless on other things with c.
Personally, I've been using PICs for a while and have only recently started
looking at c. Mostly I'm doing it simply because it's something new. Hitech
offers a completely free C compiler that works with most of the major hobby
chips out there, so it would be a good choice if you were later to decide to
go for c. TTYL

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