In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, oliverb wrote:

Hi,
Actually Scenix commissioned the development of CCS SX C. But during the development cycle Scenix went through some changes and by the time the C compiler was finished Scenix was focused on other business issues. So the compiler was never really tested by anyone other than CCS customers. It had the same issues that would be expected from any product left in that state, it needed to be tested and debugged. CCS had a compiler that had been pretty much orphaned and Parallax had an SX that needed a C compiler. So I introduced them. I also introduced Parallax and Netburner which resulted in the PINK. 
As for C#. While the C# and .NET initiative were by Microsoft, they have been adopted to open standards in Europe. I believe the right character order is ECMU standards. Also, there is an open source version of .NET that works on Linux and FreeBSD, supported by Novell. It's called MONO and includes a free C# compiler. C# is unique to .NET and MONO and produces tokenized code that is converted to machine language at the time of execution. The goal is to make source code totally platform independent. For example, a Winform program developed in Microsoft C# can be executed on MONO for Windows or MONO for Linux without eing recompiled. There are two tradeoffs to this approach. First, the tokenized files can be fully reverse engineered into source unless encrypted. Second, .NET is still another layer on top of the many that laready exist in Windows, so it consumes processor time and memory. I hope that clears up the confusion. C# will not be coming to Embedded devices any time soon.

Oliver

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