Dave McGuire wrote:
ARMs are damn near impossible to program in
assembler. That's why
everyone uses C in that world. Lots of [modern incarnation] Z80, Z8,
8051, and low-end PIC development is done, both professionally and
otherwise, in assembler today. Since those architectures aren't
changing, and it's mainly done that way because of the architectures, I
doubt it'll ever change. It certainly hasn't yet.
What we need is a J11/T11 chip again, so we can program MACRO11 again ;-)
(I know of the rumor, that the msp430 is loved by old pdp11 guys)