let me backup lardman's assertion about c.
I use it every day onboard the device and writing in it gives me 2 very important things after compilation:

(1) very close to asm performance
(2) code reuse, the same things I write in c are recompilable on arm and x86

that simply is not possible with asm.

Also, if whilst learning all about c you NEED an algorithm coding in asm (just like pascal) you can do inline asm directly with your c file and GCC will magically make it for you!


You should be well past your "why" things work, just translate your pascal thinking slightly and you end up with c code.


by the way, am I the only one who can smell something?