Jason Hsu wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions on how to program microcontrollers in C
> instead of Assembly language.
> 
> In the process of trying to get started, I can see why Assembly
> language is MUCH more popular among hobbyists than C.  There is
> EXCELLENT support for Assembly language.  MPLAB offers FREE and full
> functionality for Assembly language programming of microcontrollers.

And nobody has mentioned AVR to you yet? C compilers for the PIC
(especially the base and midrange parts) are hard to write, and good
ones are not cheap. Whereas with the AVR, it is a more conventional
micro and AVR-GCC is good.

Cheerful regards,

Bob

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