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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.<BR>
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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. :-).<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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. :-)<BR>
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Cheers, Me.<BR>
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On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 09:56 +1300, Richard Jones wrote:
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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: <A HREF="http://www.embedded.com/98/9802fe3.htm">http://www.embedded.com/98/9802fe3.htm</A>
Richard
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