There are any number of ways you might pick for programming the sbc and some of them are listed here.

- it comes bundled as part of the Gnu C Compiler toolkit.

- Supports most 680x0 processsors.

- Non-Motorola syntax. Personally I hate it.

- Uses Motorola standard syntax

- Powerful macro support

- Can produce output in multiple formats:

- zz

For me, it's a no brainer to use this wherever it's available. I do most of my development under Linux and `gcc-m68k` is available to install on all but the most obscure Linux distros.