> > in favour of assembler then I'm willing to give it a go!
>=20
> My personal preference is assembler. It's what I've used as my main langu=
age for
> nearly - flip, that long ? - 30 years
>=20
> It will do you no harm at all to at least be familiar with it. More often=
 it is the
> logic of a program or the external hardware that requires the most though=
t, rather
> than the language

I would add my vote to using enough assembler to be able to look at it and =
work out what the program is doing. It doesn't matter what chip you use, ha=
ving a knowledge of the underlying assembly instructions allows you to look=
 at the code a compiler produces to see what is happening if you suspect a =
compiler bug in the code generation.

Then move on to a language like C, although you may also like to have a try=
 with JAL. The advantage of a language like these is that in many cases the=
y will save you making silly mistakes with bank and page switching which ca=
n be a pain to debug when you get it wrong in an assembler program where yo=
u have to look after handling those all yourself. This can be a real pain w=
hen working against a deadline, you are pushed for time, its late at night =
and you have this niggling intermittent problem because you missed a bank s=
witching instruction somewhere.

Another advantage of a language like C is it makes it easier to move on to =
the larger chips like the PIC24/30/33 and PIC32. Once you get familiar with=
 C then you can worry less about the niggly bits of architecture and find i=
t easier to deal with the different interrupt structure they use and other =
such features.
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