AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Mucha" <dave_mucha@y...> wrote:
...
> A friend once told me that Basic is for people who want to get the 
> project done and C is for people who want to get a job programming.
> 
> The difference is that you get the project done faster the other is 
> you get paid per hour.
> 
> Once you know the language things go faster, but learing is harder 
> when using C or ASM.

I have to disagree.  You seem to be saying that everyone should be
using basic.  Basic is ok for doing simple things but I have found
that to do even moderately complex things in basic often takes dialect
specific knowledge and a healthy dose of experimentation.  And a
number of complex things (like timing related stuff or bit twiddling)
are hard or even impossible in basic.  Bit banged Serial I/O in basic?
 I shudder at the thought.  

Learning C is not that hard - maybe only slightly harder than basic
(for the first dialect) and once you learn it, the next implementation
is a piece of cake.  Even non-ANSI-C versions.  Yes, ASM is way harder
but that's not suprising, you have to learn the processor
architecture.  (which is a very good thing)

I've used at least 10 basic dialects, about an equal number of C
compilers for 7 different processors and ASM for the same number of
processors.  C is vastly similar across most implementations, basic is
significantly different.  

Phil