Could not agree more.

Regards,

Carlos.


2012/8/24 Isaac Marino Bavaresco <isaacbavaresco@yahoo.com.br>

> OK, it's starting again...
>
> As a professional designer, I need to port my designs and re-use most of
> my code across different devices, manufacturers and architectures.
> Using C I can use my AES cryptographic routines, my FLASH file system,
> my LCD routines, etc., etc., etc., without or with very little
> modification with PIC16, PIC18, PIC24, PIC32 (MIPS), dsPIC, AVR, ARM,
> MSP430, etc.
>
> Besides, why I need to write a full page of code to program a more or
> less simple 'if' if I can write it in a single line? The C code is much
> simpler to understand and the code is usually self-commenting.
>
> So, for the PIC assembly programmers I have to say: you are PIC
> designers, I'm an electronics designer.
>
> Yes, I agree that knowing assembly language is important, and I can
> program fluently in assembly for most of the previous architectures, and
> frequently I do, but most of my code is in C and I can port it very
> effortlessly. Just now and then I really need to use assembly.
>
>
> Isaac
>
>
> Em 24/8/2012 04:37, Perry Curling-Hope escreveu:
> > IMHO, employing  'high level languages' are a wrong turn when working
> with
> > embedded microcomputers in general, and Pic's in particular.
> > You aren't really programming the machine, but somebody elses
> environment,
> > which often imposes limitations on optimum performance.
> >
> > Start rather with MPLab/ASM.....it affords complete control of the micr=
o
> as
> > well as imparting a profound understanding of what the machine is doing
> and
> > exacthy how it operates.
> >
> > There are no quick fixes to becoming a competent firmwate developer /
> > embedded micro programmer.
> >
> > Perry Curling-Hope
> >
> > Research and Development
>
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