Hi Jan,

I think for me the only thing would be a hard customer requirement. I wrote a big program in Pascal in the early '80s, and very soon after that learned C. For reasons I've long since forgotten, I immediately liked C much better than I did Pascal, and haven't written or been asked to write a line of Pascal since. Now, 25 years later, you would have to talk long and hard to convice me that I would be more productive if I suddenly started using Pascal instad of C. That's the "gut" answer.

The "head" answers are similar to one of Erik's points:

• Can't use old C code in new projects.
• New code might not be useful in future projects if they involve a non-8051 architecture that JansEmbeddedPascal(tm) doesn't support.
• Smaller pool of programmers if I need help.
• Less support on the internet in forums like this one.
• Etc.

I went through this same sort of thing a long time ago when I first wanted to write a Windows program. At the time, Borland had an OOPish wrapper around Windows called OWL or something like that, which was technically and aesthetically superior to Microsoft's MFC. But of course MFC was the "bandwagon" and had all the momentum and support. I chose OWL for my first couple of projects. Big mistake.

-- Russ