On Mon, 9 Oct 2017, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> Op 09/10/2017 om 11:45 schreef David C Brown:
>> Probably not the ideal place to ask
> Why not? it is the same company :)
>> but I am contemplating  giving up on
>> PICS because of the wretched development tools and AVR looks,
>> superficially, attractive.
> It is the same company :)
>
> My advice would be to switch to 32-bit chips and C++. Cortex-M0 chips
> and modules are very cheap.
>

the idea of using a HLL such as C++ is very appealing. Faster development,=
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easier maintenance, dumber programmers :-)

But let us not forget that big slow code that needs a lot of resources to=20
run also tends to eat more power. And somewhere deep inside all that=20
HLL code you are going to need someone with the skill to catch and fix low=
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level bugs and maintain the low / high level interface.

Reminds me of a project I came into contact with many years ago (it's=20
always many years now). A ton of code written in C. Lovingly crafted to be=
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platform independent and portable. Only thing was it ran like a dog and=20
ate batteries like a kid in a sweat shop. But the worst of it was it would=
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periodically stop sending or receiving data through the modem (chip) and=20
nobody had a clue how to fix it. It's all well and good providing a C=20
programmer with a black box interface but someone somewhere needs to know=20
what's actually going on inside the black box.

Regards
Sergio Masci
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