My Official Introduction, and What Role to PIC MCUs Play in Your Lives?

[rmteo]

Alain, since you use both compilers, would it be possible for you to highlight the Pros and Cons of the two?

[mister_e]

I guess it depend of what you've done 'till now with PBP. It also depend how much you trust in hidden compiler feature.

Having already spending a lot of my time to build many routines to interface many different type of hardware, I now understand how things work and how to solve a problem, to migrate some routine to suit another hardware (let's say different GLCD controller type). But yeah... i spent time on it. What if I haven't time? MAYBE i would use a tool who give me the feature i need... but more than likely, I would go in a different way, so I'll use something I'm comfortable with... hence PBP.

You can't tell which is better.. if so what's your own definition of better?

I'll stop here for now.

[Acetronics2]

Alain, since you use both compilers, would it be possible for you to highlight the Pros and Cons of the two?

Hi, Rmteo

As you also use both compilers ( lol )... you know PBP has no big dedicated libraries like GLCD, Nor direct support for floating arithmetics.

The main point between, I think ... is the PBP extensive use of "soft written functions" where MKB widely use Hard resources ...

Major impact on flexibility and portability ...

I'd also add PBP existing libraries are MUCH easier to use Than MKE's ...


Now, I was speaking about TRUE , FALSE , and OUT of DATE arguments ... just points that are easy to verify and do not imply any subjective appreciation.


The translations from MKB ( or C ! ) I've done to the day just showed me PBP "way of thinking" and syntax was easier FOR ME ...



As a "solid" comparison example ...

I posted here a "translation" of Warren Schroeder "RC Pulse and duty meter" ( MKB )...

http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=9709

As you'll see ... it's far from a "line per line" translation ... but, to me , is a good way to show how same question can be solved both ways ...


Which is "better" ... lol !!! everyone has it's own criteria ...

Alain

[rmteo]

Thanks for your comments, Alain. I have mkB and mkB for dsPIC plus 2 other BASIC compilers - but I do not use PBP - not yet.

The question was NOT which is better. I was asking your opinions on the Pros & Cons of PBP vs. mkB which you and mister E have answered.