I probably saw the light before you were programming!=20
I got hooked on C in 1976 on a PDP-11/45 running Unix
V6.  (it had 256K of RAM and supported 16 concurrent
users.  those were the days. sigh...). =20

But there is no substitute for understanding the
machine architecture.  I still write lots of code in
ASM.

Sorry for helping the thread to veer OT...

Phil

--- Ake Hedman <akhe@eurosource.se> wrote:
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> You have seen the light... ;-)
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> Cheers
> /Ake
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> phil B wrote:
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> >While I prefer to understand the chip to a depth
> that
> >only asm allows, it is completely valid that some
> one
> >whould prefer to code in C.  The benefits of C are
> >very real.
> >
> >As part of evaluating cc5x, I rewrote my driveway
> >sensor logger code in C (ds1302-SPI, relay, serial
> >I/O).  It took all of about 3 hours vs the 2 days
> to
> >do the asm version (and I borrowed a lot of asm
> code
> >from previous projects).  Granted, some time was
> saved
> >because I was writing the program the second time
> but
> >not having to worry about details like the screwy
> >conditional instructions of the PIC is a big
> benefit.
> >
> >Phil
> >
> >--- Jan-Erik Soderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm@telia.com>
> >wrote:
> > =20
> >
> >>Hasan A. Khan wrote :
> >>
> >>   =20
> >>
> >>>Executing: "C:\Program Files\bknd\CC5X\CC5X.EXE"
> >>>SAMPLE1.C -CC -fINHX8M -p16F628 -I"C:\Program
> >>>Files\bknd\CC5X" -a -L -Q -V -FM +reloc.inc
> >>>Error : Unable to open file 'reloc.inc'
> >>>
> >>>why can't the compiler find it?
> >>>     =20
> >>>
> >>Does it exist at all ?
> >>
> >>Jan-Erik.
> >>
> >>PS:
> >>You also wrote :
> >>" One thing I learned was that I didn't have to
> use
> >>assembler..."
> >>
> >>No, but why not ?
> >>You are using a 16F628. Not that much memory. And
> >>you'll
> >>probaby learn the chip faster with assembler then
> >>with C.
> >>Have you written anything in (PIC) assembler ?
> >>
> >>
> >>
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