AVR-Chat

While it is true that compiling C is more complex than compiling 
assembly it is all hidden from the user so there's no real perceivable 
difference. That's what it's about. I'm not sure what C development 
experience you have first hand but getting the 'hello world' equivalent 
to compile and load using WinAVR/Stdio is close to trivial. I really 
don't see how it could be simpler. The order of magnitude gain in 
productivity comes at almost no cost.

An embedded platform is a TERRIBLE platform to learn a new language. 
You'll never know why things aren't working, too many variables. You 
need at least proficiency and preferably expertise in your programming 
language before applying it to a restrictive platform like an AVR.

    Sander

Mike Harrison wrote:
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> The comment was about the devtools, not the language. A C compile/link 
> process is inevitably more
> complex than an assemble one. Poor defaults/configs can make it a lot 
> more complex than necessary.
>
> >I don't think that an embedded platform is the right choice for learning
> >C. Learn C on a PC (Linux, windows, Mac, whatever) and then apply those
> >skills to develop embedded apps
>
> NO NO NO!!!
>
> If you want to write for embedded, learn on that, preferably via 
> assembler first so you understand
> the hardware. PC programming allows far too many bad habits to develop.
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>