3 Apr
2006
3 Apr
'06
9:28 a.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
These days, assembly language programming is like cannibalism - lots of
people insist that it is still very much alive, but nobody has actually
ever seen it.
Apologies to the 100 or so engineers in the entire field that may still
use it.
I have to agree. I do a reasonable amount of paid work on micros and
almost all of it is in C. The only exception is PIC's, which are
generally done in assembler.
don't get me wrong - I love assembler, but most paying customers want
the work in C for maintainability.
All the AVR and HC11/12 (6800) work I've done has been in C as well as a
handful of odd-ball cpus. Even 8085's. And these days most of that is
shifting to small pin count ARM SOC's like the SAM7S.
The joke these days is that the CPLD next to the CPU has 4x the pins!
-brad