On Sep 17, 2:45*pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:

> Thanks, I did wonder if people coded anything any more or just used
> tools.

The people who write the tools certainly code.

Folks like us (hard real time, in the nanosecond range) often need to
get quite close to the metal to get the performance we need.

I was extremely proud of myself when I wrote my first program that
required the use of a voltmeter to test its success (a driver for
a digital-to-analog converter).

Cindy Hamilton