mikroC vs BASCOM AVR
A few days ago I was going to try some programming in C using mikroC. So far I have been able to blink a LED... mikroC is primarily designed to support the circuit boards MikroElectronica makes and does very little for the Arduino (and they plan on keeping it like that). It is still a great (but expensive!) C, just not one for the Arduino.
[original story: Let's Make Robots]