16F877A problem: "coupled" digital values

[mackrackit]

I got the manifest and jar things figured out. Those were some of the things the books did not cover well. Google to the rescue.

The thing I like about java and the reason I want to learn it is its cross platform capability.

[T.Jackson]

Java is king for that. No time lost learning Java, it uses the same syntax as C, it's object oriented, performance wise it's arguably almost par with C, will never be "as" quick because of the latency of the (VM) - Virtual Machine. I did a bit of a comparison test with Java & BASIC a few months ago - Java puts BASIC to shame (up to 20 times more efficient)