Comparison of Ardunino, Make Controller, AVRISP

From UCHobby:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190609193337/http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2008/12/07/where-to-start-with-microcontrollers/
Which compares Arduino, the Make Controller, and bare AVRs (via AVRISP).

I find the implication that the Arduino/wiring library is a major advantage particularly interesting, since it doesn't seem like it would be difficult to implement on nearly any 'reasonable' microcontroller (they're talking about things like "pinmode" being much clearer than having to fiddle with mysterious control registers, which is probably true...)

Thanks for the link, I found that particularly useful, especially since I'd never heard anything about the 'Make controller' before. ;D