Another old saying: You are not a *real* embedded systems programmer unless you have argued with someone about which routine is 'better' - the one that takes up one less byte of code memory, or the one that executes in one less clock cycle...

Another old saying: You are not a *real* C programmer unless you have managed to produce some totally obscure code that uses 100 times the memory and 100 times the clock cycles.

I have worked with "real C" programmers and quote and two 'discussions'.

1)
E: Put some comments in, I can not read your code.
RCP: Then it will not be real C.

2)
RCP: We need migrate to C++.
E: That will require more processing power and the customers complain of too short battery life.
RCP: what does that have to do with it.
E: Clock speed and power drain is directly related
RCP: What does that have to do with moving to C++.
E: Shorter battery life.
RCP: We still need to move to C++.
E walks away.

I hope anyone in this forum programming in C is an unreal C programmer.

Erik