Re: microcontroller programming -- how to begin



Ken Smith wrote:

In article <4479e421$0$4493$9b4e6d93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Andreas Schwarz <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On the contrary, most of the free 8051 stuff is very old

You mean tried and true, well proven don't you. Just because something
has been around for a while doesn't lower its value.

Hear hear !

and of limited
value,

A free macro assembler is very far from "of limited value".

whereas for AVR there is a free, actively developed C compiler
(AVR-GCC)

"actively developed" is a very strange turn of phrase. Do you mean that
they are still working on it (ie: trying to remove the bugs)

If an assembler / compiler works why does it need 'developing' ?

Graham

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