[sdiy] FW: PIC Programming

[Antti Huovilainen]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, MTG wrote:

> Sorry to present a contrry position.  I much prefer the 8051 and/or 
> Motorola 68xx family derivatives to the PIC any day. There is no denying 
> the PIC is popular, but I think I will go the other direction (ARM) 
> before heading back into PIC hell.

Don't discount AVR either. The cpu is 8 bits, but for such it's quite nice 
and the C support is very good. GCC even seems to generate fairly good 
code. Good enough that I would never write midi parser in asm.

In future projects, my personal choice will be either AVR or PIC24/dsPIC.

Antti

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