Hi Peter,

"But C helps me to finish programs about 10 times earlier as in assembler. "

There can be NO argument on that fact. The management gurus have coined terms like FTTM ( faster time to market )and the current day competition does force one to fit into this environment, where detailed project planning is the major casuality.

As you yourself had highlighted, if one takes the time to go through the planning process, understand the nitty grittys, identify the pitfalls and THEN sits down to write code, most of the mess what we get to see will not happen.

Just because the home work is improper, we see code that is developed on the fly, pushing the processor to the limit when there was no need for it.

With assembly you have a one-to-one relation with the MCU hardware and with C, you have a third party (the compiler )coming in between, forcing you to learn the "behaviour" and rules of that compiler.

To sum up it up: assembly has its place. C has its place. It is the wisdom of the programmer to select either or use both judiciously. And in this process mastering assembly, helps code in C better. OK that is my opinion.

Have a nice Sunday.

Raghu