Anyone looking for an opportunity for a "letter to the editor" ? Condensed version of an article in Embedded Systems, March 2000: Some embedded systems developers think only assembly is appropriate for embedded systems. The rest think only C. This is wrong--it's OK to dismiss "other languages" without thought, but you should evaluate the tradeoffs between C and assembly, and then choose C. (Assembly will always be at least as fast as C unless poorly designed but you should still use C.) Unfortunately, the author IS the editor of the magazine. Jack Ganssle's column is also amusing. Excerpt: I suggested in November that pointers often aim at things they shouldn't. ... A couple of readers said that C may have problems with data structures, but as long as you call functions that exist, the code should never wander off. Balderdash! Regardless of language, code crashes horribly for many reasons.... -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau