On Mar 25, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Walter Banks wrote:

> Arduino may be an important step to moving code generation for
> embedded systems from abstracting the processor details with C
> to abstracting application details.

Yes.  Although I suspect that Arduino's biggest departure from "normal  
programming techniques" is in abstracting away the whole concept of  
"ports and registers and bits" into mere "pins", so that would-be  
users don't have to understand binary.  And I can't see that really  
catching on in the technical world ("There are 10 kinds of  
people...")  It's also pretty expensive (20 to 50 times slower than  
direct manipulation of constant register bits.)  Though not so  
expensive as an interpreter...

BillW

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