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Re: Easy C programming , Worth teaching?

I briefly looked at easyC, and it seems useful for teaching newer programmers, but it's hard to mix easyC code and code you wrote the regular way (copying and pasting is a great way to introduce bugs) because it completely changes the structure of the code. It also hides some useful features (like interupts, or being able to wait for less than one millisecond) while leaving in other things that would completely perplex newer programmers, for example the operator menu contains things like '^=' and '?:'. The big problem i have with it is you can't mix easyC and hand-written code because of the huge difference in structure.