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Re: C or C++

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Originally Posted by thegathering
We use C with an IDE called MPLab by Microchip.


*edit* I wish we could use C++ though, then maybe we'd get some more programmers on our team. C tends to scare them off. (maybe that's MPLab's icky-sticky interface rather than the language itself )
Use eclipse, it is much nicer than MPLAB

Also I think C is the easier of the two languages, the things that c++ simplified (Classes Structs etc) are really not important for what we are doing.
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