Vis Naicker wrote: > Other better programmers have lost countless hours debugging - and the > reason is not that the language is not perfect, but that it is still > little past version 1.0. Pascal is not an alternative - drop that > pissing contest of C vs Pascal - what should have happened is that C > should have evolved by copying what is right in these other > languages. And become strong and super resistant. It may be tough to evolve C due to backwards compatibility concerns. I think a clean break is needed else there will be too much reluctance to fix the little things. ******************************************************************** Embed Inc, Littleton Massachusetts, http://www.embedinc.com/products (978) 742-9014. Gold level PIC consultants since 2000. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist