I had a very bad experience with MikroPascal, to the point where it was utterly unusable. That was two years ago, and perhaps the Mikro family has been fixed--common back end, I believe, with different front ends for the compilers so some bugs will be with all members of their language family. As they say, you only get one chance to make a first impression and Mikro certainly made quite an impression with me. Terrible. Unusable. Unresponsive to bug reports. I also purchased their USB programmer which worked somewhat better than MikroPascal did, but it also had many problems, such as grabbing 100% of USB resources and causing repeated system crashes under both W2K and XP. I replaced it with MicroEngineering Lab's USB programmer which works much better -- in fact, perfectly, co-exists with other USB programs and hardware, does not consume excessive resources, etc. So, Mikro is 0 wins for 2 purchases with me. I'll never purchase anything from them again. Jack cllow2020 wrote: > This may help > http://www.mikroe.com/en/compilers/mikrobasic/pic/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of > Marc Nicholas > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:07 AM > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. > Subject: Re: [PIC]: Best PIC BASIC compiler? > > > I must have missed it in my Googling! Looks good. Many thanks! > > -marc > > > > On 2/10/08, Jack Smith wrote: > >> Swordfish. Great compiler, very efficient code. Quite reasonable >> price. >> >> http://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/swordfish/ >> >> I've used it for two products and have others in development and know >> of other products done with Swordfish as well. >> >> Jack >> >> >> Marc Nicholas wrote: >> >>> I've been looking at both commercial and OSS PIC BASIC compilers. I >>> need 18F support - ideally something that has rudimentry USB support >>> out-of-the-box. >>> >>> Any opinions or faves from PIClisters? >>> >>> TIA, >>> >>> -marc >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> 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