Re: Moving from 8051 to AVR

On 2006-02-08, Ian Bell <ruffrecords@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Depends on the processor and the application. Here we are specifically
considering 8 microcontrollers where the emphasis is on control. IME non C
friendly microcontrollers make better controllers and are best programmed
in assembler.

There are other languages. Intel's PLM-51 (or whatever it was
called) seemed like a good compromise.

The AVR is not actually very C-friendly - it is merely somewhat
IAR-C-friendly (although far better than the 8051). The msp430 is
probably the best example of a C-friendly cpu.

As I said, to me C friendly is not an asset.

It is to those of us with C code that we need to run. :)

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