Quote (KrzaQ2 @ Jan 28 2014 12:44pm)
I think you have no idea how much can be reduced to a no-op by a good compiler and templates. And that's beside the point, in a constrained environment you need the help of a good toolset (IDE being one of the tools) even more, unless, as an Almighty Electrical Engineering Major, you don't need to do more than blink a few diodes
Oh boy, Phased is in for a surprise when he realizes that Atmel uses Visual studio 2010 coupled with AVR-GCC and ARM-GCC compilers in their Atmel studio releases.