Em 31/5/2011 18:54, Michael Watterson escreveu:
> On 31/05/2011 20:24, Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote:
>>> Only one question more: I do not know anything about C, sorry for that,=
 but I
>>>>  only know assy and some mikrobasik.
>>>>
>>>>  Is it difficult to learn C ?
>> I don't think so. YMMV.
> But very hard to write perfect programs with


As somebody pointed out, learning to program and learning a language are
different things. A bad programmer is a bad programmer in any language


> Takes much longer to learn the Libraries


This problem i common to every language.


>>>>  Why is it so used worldwide?
> Because most of UNIX, Linux, OS/2, Windows etc is written in it. Sheer=20
> momentum.


One more good reason...


>> Because of its portability. That is: write once and reuse many (with
>> minimal modifications).
> Because it's little more than a machine independent macro assembler.=20
> Makes it very portable.


Well, it seems a good reason for the assembly programmers migrate to C :)


> If writing accurate clear to read  and easily maintainable programs is=20
> more important than portability look at other languages.


I think this is a point that is more related to programming style than
to the language itself, although some languages really don't help.


> I prefer C for Linux and ARM.
> C#  for Windows GUI applications
> C++ or Modula-2 for Device drivers, OS
> JAL for PIC 10/12/16/18F


I use GCC in C or C++ mode where available, and for desktop GUI
applications I use wxWidgets so I need to write code only once and
compile for Windows, Linux and Macintosh (although I never used a Mac in
my life).


> C is probably best for other Microchip CPUs which are only really PICs=20
> in part name..


Don't underestimate the C compilers for small PICs, Hi-Tech PICC is very
good. It's a long time since I last used pure assembly in a PIC application=
..
I like Hi-Tech PICC for PIC16F and MPLAB C18 for PIC18, and they are
very efficient.
For dsPIC, PIC24 and PIC32 there is GCC, which is a great thing because
it is easier to port GCC code across platforms, including desktop systems.


Isaac

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