27 Nov
2007
27 Nov
'07
10:09 p.m.
On 27 Nov 2007 at 23:48, Jim Brain wrote:
All that said, I'm not sure I agree ML is the best
for a budding
programmer. You can use ML and still be clueless. Though, if it works
out and you choose an older platform, that's one less older unit that is
no longer obsolete.
That's one of the reasons that I suggested a microcontroller such as
a PIC (or an AVR or 8051 family). Very simple architecture (a PIC
has, what, 34 instructions?). No OS to fool with, easy to program,
cheap and you can actually make it do interesting things.
Cheers,
Chuck