On Tue, 4 May 2004 14:13:44 -0700, you wrote:

>I would concur.  Especially since most platforms require purchasing a
>3rd party compiler which typically costs in excess of $400.  I would
>love to work with PIC's in C, but it's not worth purchasing a compiler.
>
>I know many will say HiTech has a free lite version, but what's the
>point if I'm limited to 5 different chips, none of which match the ones
>I actually have.
>
>Now if you use AVR, that's an entirely different story.  You can use GCC
>there and that's a really powerful tool.  Thing is you still have to
>know ASM for some of the more obscure things such as timing routines, =
etc.
>
>No matter what, you *need* to know asm.

Absolutely. You will never write efficient C on a small microcontroller =
if you don't have the sort
of understanding of the hardware that only programming in assembler can =
give you.=20
=20

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