On 25 May 2013, at 15:22, Bob Camp wrote: > If you are going to code on a cheap PIC (the PIC16 series) you will likely > need to learn PIC assembler. All my coding on those parts was in assembly > language. They are old enough / slow enough / small RAM enough that things > like C (or the other high level languages you listed) really don't do well on > them.
Well, not to be argumentative, but that certainly hasn't been my experience. The overwhelming majority (95+%) of code I've written for PICs (numbering in the high tens of thousands of lines) has been written in C and with overwhelming success. I've used it both professionally and casually on 8-bit devices ranging from PIC18F all the way down to PIC10F with little trouble. While I agree there will always be a place for assembly language on smaller devices and for certain applications, I would never conclude that well written C "doesn't do well" on PIC16s. Furthermore, today's PIC16F product line is quite broad, including several higher-performance parts which make coding in C even more attractive. They aren't all "old" and all "slow", at least in their product class. 73, Brent, KD0GLS, Minneapolis _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
