AVR-Chat

On Mar 22, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Mike Harrison wrote:

>> 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.


Not only "allows" but "encourages." Printf() and malloc() come to mind  
as bad habits that have to be broke to write good 8-bit embedded code.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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