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pwillard
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Posted: 07:09pm 11 Jul 2022

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Oh, man... I also saw a lot of this "unnecessary" setting and assigning being done in Arduino code... to the point of feeling nauseous about it. Granted... most Arduino coders are absolute beginners so it is sort of expected... but they should be willing to see why they can write better code. (sometimes, they even listen to advice... but it's rare)

Tinine
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Posted: 06:21am 12 Jul 2022

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pwillard said Oh, man... I also saw a lot of this "unnecessary" setting and assigning being done in Arduino code... to the point of feeling nauseous about it.

pwillard said �Granted... most Arduino coders are absolute beginners so it is sort of expected... but they should be willing to see why they can write better code. (sometimes, they even listen to advice... but it's rare)

This is why MMBasic on a MCU should be in every school.
I imagine students being graded based on code/memory efficiency.

The impression I get (not being too informed) is that every Arduino solution is a library function.

I was so anal regarding efficiency in the QuickBasic/DOS days that I couldn't get enough of doing whatever I could in MASM. Ended-up with QuickBasic being not much more than the glue for MASM .obj's.

Miss those days

Craig

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