[chbot] C vs C++ and embedded

[Chris Hellyar]

That makes interesting reading, coming from someone who has avoided OOP
programming for ages, and only just got dragged in, kicking and
screaming in the last year or so.

I'm a die-hard assembly fan for embedded stuff, which probably makes me
a dinosaur.  I suspect if it was still a part of my income I'd have
switched to C long ago though.  I find it's the thrill of the chase with
assembly which makes it interesting, but it also means it takes 5x as
long to get the same result. :-).

Case in point would be my current modbus project.  There are some good
open source C code bases for modbus RTU on various platforms, but I'm
coding from scratch in assembler for PIC 'cause I can'.  200+ hours of
work and it's working well with a bunch of standard test tools, but in C
I think it would have been more like 30 hours work.

Which leads me to a straw-poll question...  What are people using as
their tool set of choice for robots/gadgets?  What processor/language?
I'm 1 vote for PIC/asm. :-)



Cheers, Me.


On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 09:56 +1300, Richard Jones wrote:

> After the last meeting Paul was discussing with me the merits of using 'C'
> structures and C vs C++. This article might prove interesting to anyone
> interested in the tradeoffs between C and C++ for embedded applications
> like robotics: http://www.embedded.com/98/9802fe3.htm
> 
> Richard
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