gnupic: Re: [gnupic] PIC under Linux developpement Howto
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] PIC under Linux developpement Howto
From:
Christopher Bergeron ####@####.####
Date:
5 Jul 2005 01:04:03 +0100
Message-Id: <42C9CE52.2090804@bergeron.com>
I'm going to have to second this one. However, there's a part of me
that thinks that having choices will be confusing to newbies.
Kind regards,
-CB
Peter Onion wrote:
>On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 17:23 -0400, Sergey A. Dryga wrote:
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>>I have to disagree with "one language - a relocatable assembler" option.
>>If a newbie is an EE student, that's fine he or she will have to learn
>>assembler anyway. But for a hobbyist, higher level language is much
>>easier, or maybe even familiar.
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>If they want to use "C" then fine, but they shouldn't be comming to a
>"gputils" list for help.
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>Bearing in mind we probably won't have a huge number of contributors to
>this, I think we need to be very focused on what we are trying to
>achieve. Since the focus of this list is "gputils", and since that
>doesn't include a C compiler, then I agree with "one language - a
>relocatable assembler".
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>Plus, you really need a detailed understanding of the PIC architecture
>to make the best of it's limited facilities, and you aren't going to get
>that using "C".
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>Peter
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