PIC Freeware / Beginner's Info

[Jeremy Brookes]

>One need not write only assembly language with these chips.  A low cost
>($100) C programmer can be found at http://www.cssinfo.com/picc.html or
>the same can be bought from ITU.  It can be used directly with the PIC


My experience of a C language for the PIC was very disappointing - only
integer arithmetic, very limited subset of C commands, few libraries. Why be
afraid of assembly language?! It's not as if there are a lot of commands.
I've done some code for them which received serial data and controlled IO
pins accordingly - not too different to MIDI applications (which I intend to
get round to soon).