[ladyada]

good god, i wrote this nearly -five- years ago

please do not take it seriously at this point, its completely outdated

[eande]

The time stamp from the webpage is "May 17, 2011 20:07"!

But if it is outdated a PIC-AVR-ARM update would be interesting. Personally I used all three, but prefer nowadays PIC because of the wide-ranging PIC24&dsPIC and Microchips great stacks offering.