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Are those other forums related to programming for embedded systems or more application development? My experience is that C is very much alive and well in the embedded realm but much less common now in the application development field. On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Barry Gershenfeld <.....gbarry42KILLspam@spam@gmail.com> wrote: > On other forums, the guys are reminiscing about the good old days when they > used to use C. I guess that makes us special, those of us who use it > currently. >

Personally I tend to use C++ even for embedded stuff in a professional capacity nowadays - though I'm generally talking about more complex processors than PICs in that case. Or were you suggesting the use of something not related to C at all (which is in reality unlikely - languages like Java surely owe a lot to C)? Chris On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Sean Breheny <shb7KILLspamcornell.edu> wrote: > Are those other forums related to programming for embedded systems or > more application development? My experience is that C is very much > alive and well in the embedded realm but much less common now in the > application development field. > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Barry Gershenfeld <.....gbarry42KILLspam.....gmail.com> wrote: >> On other forums, the guys are reminiscing about the good old days when they >> used to use C. I guess that makes us special, those of us who use it >> currently. >> -

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Sean Breheny <EraseMEshb7spam_OUTTakeThisOuTcornell.edu> wrote: > Are those other forums related to programming for embedded systems or > more application development? My experience is that C is very much > alive and well in the embedded realm but much less common now in the > application development field. I don't think many large applications are using C. I think it's more common to use OOP for GUI programs. At the system level, C is alive and well (linux, BSD, probably much of Windows internals) Apple of course uses Objective C -- Martin K

M.L wrote: > I don't think many large applications are using C. I think it's > more common to use OOP for GUI programs. One of the more common models I see is to write the application core in C and the GUI in Python. Until you hit the GUI, C is quite portable across platforms, and there are a number of GUI libraries for Python that are also portable. This allows a developer to write a reasonably fast application that is easily portable across Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. I personally tend to gravitate toward C for non-PIC platforms, and use C++ when I expect the app to get more complex, but I see far fewer C++ apps in the wild than I would expect. Of course, in the M$ environment there is a lot of C#, but in spite of the portability offered by Mono, it doesn't seem to be all that common outside the M$ world. --McD

On 10/15/2011 8:23 AM, mcdspam_OUTis-sixsigma.com wrote: > M.L wrote: > >> I don't think many large applications are using C. I think it's >> more common to use OOP for GUI programs. > One of the more common models I see is to write the application core in C > and the GUI in Python. Until you hit the GUI, C is quite portable across > platforms, and there are a number of GUI libraries for Python that are > also portable. This allows a developer to write a reasonably fast > application that is easily portable across Windows, Mac and Linux > platforms. > > I personally tend to gravitate toward C for non-PIC platforms, and use C++ > when I expect the app to get more complex, but I see far fewer C++ apps in > the wild than I would expect. Of course, in the M$ environment there is a > lot of C#, but in spite of the portability offered by Mono, it doesn't > seem to be all that common outside the M$ world. > > --McD > > IMHO: I keep hearing my Nerd brothers & sisters saying that c is obsolete and no longer relevant. I beg to differ. The skinny little K & R book with its simple and concise language definition remains the foundation of the industry. Many of us who have tried to keep up with too many things changing too fast think of K & R c as generic assembler. When a new computer is first designed there are really only two choices when it comes to making it marketable: you must have either a c compiler or a cross compiler that supports it from a pre existing host. One way or another you must not expect to retrain all the programmers. Cross compilers are quick & dirty solutions that can get a product running quickly. The native c compilers take a little time & talent to create and permit the programmer to wring every bit of performance from the hardware. Further IMHO: Nearly all of the compilers I have looked at recently imitate c in structure with embellishments (and limitations) inspired by FORTRAN or COBOL. I am not criticizing, just observing. I don't consider myself a programmer at all. I am just a very old student in the world of computers. I try to not get involved with micro's that do not have some sort of free c-compilers anymore. Life is too short to waste building new tools that are no better than the originals.. We have lost one of the Giants of our time... -- John Ferrell W8CCW

On 15 October 2011 09:08, Chris McSweeny <@spam@cpmcsweenyKILLspamgmail.com> wrote: > Personally I tend to use C++ even for embedded stuff in a professional > capacity nowadays - though I'm generally talking about more complex > processors than PICs in that case. Or were you suggesting the use of > something not related to C at all (which is in reality unlikely - > languages like Java surely owe a lot to C)? > > OOI, are you really using C++ for embedded? or in fact plain old C

> OOI, are you really using C++ for embedded? or in fact plain old C ? (not OOI) I use C++ when possible (LPC ARM chips, starting with Cortex now), C (or Jal!) on smaller chips (12/14 bit cores, 18F's). FYI: I started a blog (series of articles) about using C++ on microcontrollers (next installment will use an LPC1114 as an example): http://www.embeddedrelated.com/blogs-1//Wouter_van_Ooijen.php -- Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------------- Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: http://www.voti.nl consultancy, development, PICmicro products docent Hogeschool van Utrecht: http://www.voti.nl/hvu