On 8/23/07, wouter van ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
> > Yes, IME, there is some truth in this. The combination of
> > "BASIC" and "PIC" screams "non-professional" to me.
>
> For which value of "professional"? There are professionals that are
> neither electronic nor informatics professionals! For them using an easy
> tool that yields quick results makes perfect sense (== a professional
> choice!). I don't use professional writing tools (literal sense, pencils
> etc). Does that make me a non-professional?

 Wouter,
You are a proffesional in what did you studied and worked 80% from your life.
If you've written software then you're a proffesional in software and
never get the qualification of a hardware guy which all his life
designs PCB for example.
If you are a surgeon then you can't treat theets like a stomatologist.
PIC is a proffesional tool just for a very small segment of the electronics.
You already realised that by jumping to the ARM. The guys which
are struggle with 1GHz clocks and 3 to 6 Gbps serial communications
will consider PIC an ugly and obsolete device.I'm almost agree with them.

best wishes,
Vasile
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