".  I say "hobby thing" because while the beginning
professionals might think that, supervisors know better).
"

Yeah, right !

RP

On 17/08/05, John Nall <jwnall@gmail.com> wrote:
> William Chops Westfield wrote:
> 
> > > As one of the people who added a PIC tag, I interpreted your
> > original as being mostly about microchip's C30, and therefore
> > definitely [PIC]  (
> 
> Well, gosh, I thought that I was not going to say anything else on this
> thread, but guess I kind of have to just say a few more words.  The
> original post referred to the C30 compiler, that is correct, but not in
> reference to PIC's.  It was strictly in reference to the relationship
> that the C30 compiler has to a true C compiler.  So based upon comments
> by different people, chief among them being James Newton, if I had it to
> do all over again I would have made it [EE], which is now where I think
> it should have gone
> 
> And by the way, I enjoyed the discussion.  The flaming was bearable,
> with only minor singes.  :-)  I stand corrected and realize that no one
> ever said the C30 compiler was a true C compiler, so my complaining
> about it was wrong.  (HOWEVER, just as a departing rant, let me say that
> there are, or have been, or will be, people who had a C course in
> college, get into doing PIC programming as a hobby thing, and assume
> that they are well prepared to start programming the little buggers
> since they know C.  I say "hobby thing" because while the beginning
> professionals might think that, supervisors know better).
> 
> John
> 
> John
> --
> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
> View/change your membership options at
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist
>

-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist