....someone somewhere needs to know what's actually going on inside the black box... "8) Yup... On 10/10/17, smplx wrote: > > > 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= , > easier maintenance, dumber programmers :-) > > But let us not forget that big slow code that needs a lot of resources to > run also tends to eat more power. And somewhere deep inside all that > HLL code you are going to need someone with the skill to catch and fix lo= w > level bugs and maintain the low / high level interface. > > Reminds me of a project I came into contact with many years ago (it's > always many years now). A ton of code written in C. Lovingly crafted to b= e > platform independent and portable. Only thing was it ran like a dog and > ate batteries like a kid in a sweat shop. But the worst of it was it woul= d > periodically stop sending or receiving data through the modem (chip) and > nobody had a clue how to fix it. It's all well and good providing a C > programmer with a black box interface but someone somewhere needs to know > what's actually going on inside the black box. > > Regards > Sergio Masci > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .