> Yes, IME, there is some truth in this. The combination of 
 > "BASIC" and "PIC" screams "non-professional" to me.

PICAXE does the same for me. But at the end of the day
the job gets done, it's simply some person's way of getting
the code into the silicon

I have a meeting on Monday with a couple of backers and
they don't care what micro I'm using. They are astute enough
to see that the circuit works, and that's all that matters

Some years ago I made a prototype for a sporting application
(using a Motorola as it happens). The client was happy with the
result and started looking around for money. His unmoveable
requirement was that the money should come from somebody
in that sport. I felt that totally irrelevant - backing is backing.
By restricting himself so severely he never did find that money.
In his case he didn't judge the micro, he judged people outside
of the application

Now he's dead and the prototype is poked away in my cupboard,
also in a box that probably won't get opened for a long time

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