[sdiy] Programming Language Recommendation

Mon Dec 7 21:16:40 CET 2020

Assembly is my favourite language hands down.  Been doing it professionally 
for almost 30 years.  Just recently started trying to learn a bit of C, but 
finding it *much* harder than I imagined the transition and learning curve 
would be.  At the moment embedded C seems very much like assembly language 
except just sufficiently different to trip me up and ruin my flow with 
endless cryptic error messages that I struggle to understand!

-Richie,

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jean-Pierre Desrochers
Sent: Monday, December 7, 2020 4:57 PM
To: 'Michael E Caloroso' ; 'Roman Sowa'
Cc: synth-diy at synth-diy.org
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Programming Language Recommendation

> C is still my favorite language.
Same for me !

JP

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De : Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org] De la part de 
Michael E Caloroso
Envoyé : 7 décembre 2020 11:29
À : Roman Sowa
Cc : synth-diy at synth-diy.org
Objet : Re: [sdiy] Programming Language Recommendation

I'm a BTEE graduate, one of my classes was structured programming.
Language was Pascal.  We were given an assignment to build a program that 
converted resistor color codes to actual value.  To my instructor's 
disbelief I designed a converter using three lines of code.  I simply made a 
string array with the color codes in order, and used the array index as the 
digit value & multiplier.  Thus the color code could be parsed and value 
computed in a single line.  Even without any formal programming education I 
already understood the concept of indirect array indexing and compound 
statements.

That intuition helped when I studied microprocessors and assembly language.

I have to say that assembly programming did make it easier to learn C.

C is still my favorite language.

MC

On 12/7/20, Roman Sowa <modular at go2.pl> wrote:
>
> W dniu 2020-12-05 o 22:11, Brian Willoughby pisze:
>> You definitely won't be wasting your time by learning C.
>>
>
> That one sentence brought my attention.
> It took me a whole semester in school to understand one line of
> simplest code in C, but after that it was a path with no return. I
> only had background in Assembler and Pascal before. As a result my
> master's thesis was rather complex Windows program written in C++ with
> small addition of hardware. And I was not educated to be a programmer at 
> all.
>
> What I mean to say is that learning C is like riding a bike, it may be
> a bit tough at first, after you learn it you don't have to use it each
> day to jump on it one day and just go ahead.
> Now C is my first choice when I need simple PC utilities, like file
> format converters.
>
> Roman
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