Em 20/10/2011 13:37, M.L. escreveu: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Electron wrot= e: >> As I said HLL's certainly have their use, but if one wants to get introd= uced >> into the architecture of a tiny 8 bit PIC, I think that doing it with a = HLL >> is really overkill, and doesn't tell you much about the architecture beh= ind >> this level of abstraction. > I have to agree with this. I'm not going to tell anyone which language > they have to use, or which religion they should/not be a part of, but > I think if you're learning about microcontrollers you should be > learning about status flags and peripheral registers. C won't hide the peripheral registers from you, unless you use a very comprehensive library (that implements and hides everything for you) you will always have to deal with them > > Most of the people advocating that you don't need to know that are, in > fact, experts who already know all of that. That's to some extend true. But I'm not saying that you don't need to know that, I'm saying that you don't need to program in assembly. There's a difference. Isaac --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .