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

I really appreciate your ability to teach us programming skills and many hours of my experience is unlikely to equal 10 minutes reading your clear explanation. 

You do yourself and the other forum members a great disservice by suggesting we can learn better just programming. From time to time, I take some utility you or Bean or PJV or PJMonty or Günther etc. have written and tried to recreate the program. When I have the program working, I compare my code with yours, counting the assembled instructions.  You guys always (without exception!) beats me, often producing code half the size.

Some people come naturally to a skill while others battle a bit. The best way we lesser souls can learn is to study and then emulate your good work. (Consider us the golfers of the electronics world with handicaps of over 50 while you people are the Tiger Woods, BJ Singh or Ernie Else)

We are all aware that producing the code then writing about it takes you time but I can spend days debugging something I've written and if you multiply that by the hundreds (thousands) of your fans, you get some small idea of your impact. (You must be the only actor with thousands of fans, all nerds who seldom go to the movies and very few of them have seen any of your screen performances) 

I am eagerly waiting for both Bean's new software and your book.

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