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

note:  tommy discovered assembly language in the 80's using MS-DOS and then spent twelve years writing all sorts of things - now obsolete, of course...   but I've "never looked back".   
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to "unsoundcode":
  well, even the non-blazing speed is too fast to comprehend now-a-days --- let me add "pin-point accuracy" to the phenomenon called assembly language --- what you write is what the chip does ! ! ! --- nothing less, nothing extra.  
  you say that you have made an LED blink - well if you can see the blinks, then you must have written code to make a "delay" of some sort - "wasted time" making the chip count to 2,000 or 20,004 --- and now instead of lighting a light, you might trigger another chip to sequence current to a stepper-motor, or to count the vibrations in your TV-remote's infrared signals...
  it's "pure" - this assembly language - and each small part is fairly simple, too.  Your own little library of more complicated tasks will build rather quickly - and you will find satisfaction in "complete control" - that you know the purpose of every byte in the program.  If your chip is mis-behaving --- you told it to do that - (and therefore you can fix it, too).
  Basic is too vauge -- maybe I can use my old basic stamp as some sort of memory device for a data-logger --- I "dropped" it  after only one program when I then discovered the SX chips...  and good ol' Assembly Language.

tommy

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