----- Original Message ---- > From: Kerry Wentworth > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. > Sent: Wednesday, 29 December, 2010 16:20:56 > Subject: Re: [EE] Programmers have it easy today! was [PIC] C syntax in=20 >assembler >=20 > Not sure what you mean. I wrote my first program in 1969 when I was a=20 > dumb high school student, so it couldn't have been that hard. ;) I doubt you were dumb :-) However I suspect that your first program wasn't= =20 actually very complex ? (I apologise if I'm wrong). And the tools available by the end of the 1960s were quite different to tho= se=20 available at the=20 beginning of the decade. The pace of change in the 1960s and 1970s was real= ly=20 amazing ! PeterO --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .