Donald Catto wrote:
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Sure, if I build an application to echo characters through the serial port in MSVC .NET I get an installation in excess of 30Mb.

In Delphi, the STANDALONE executable is only 256K


8051 programmers seem to agree that 'C' is usually the right language to use.

Thats because they never used Pascal, which doesn't use the stack for passing data, and fits the hardware more efficiently.


Some time ago I started a thread asking two questions:
1) Has anybody used Ceibo C++ for the 8051?
2) Is it any good?

How many of them had actually tried the very real C++ in question? Not a sausage.

And ? How DID it work, compared to another implementation language ?

My point boils down to this:
There are no 'right' or 'wrong' tools to use with the 8051, just different ones that suit different situations and different people.

No, here you are engaging in cultural relativism ! There are self-evidently STUPID/WRONG ways of implementing things- you have already given one, albeit on a different platform.

Steve