Parallax and the community have put enormous effort into bringing a C compiler to the Propeller. The advantage to using C is that it is a stable, established language with a large knowledge base. In addition, there are hundreds of books and web sites devoted to teaching C, and you can use many libraries and pieces of example code in your programs. Many of the programs that run the backbone (or the engine, Figure 12-1) of the Internet are written in C.
12.1 The C Language
This section is a short primer on C. I ...
