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Re: Programming the RCX...
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 9 Apr 2001 06:43:34 GMT
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Julian Gomez <jeg@polished-pixels.comNOSPAM>
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on 4/8/01 18:58, Steve Baker at sjbaker1@airmail.net wrote:
> There has been a *long* history of attempts at visual programming languages -
> but without exception, they have failed. All programs of any size in the
> "real"
> world are built with conventional text-based languages.
National Instruments would disagree with you. Their product Labview is a
tremendous success, requiring a marketing machine the size of Unigraphics'.
Plenty of "real" world programs have been built with Labview.
For those not familiar: Labview is an extensible dataflow programming
environment, i.e. graphical programming environment, that's been around
since the '80's. For more information see http://www.labview.com
In the Mindstorms arena, Labview is known as LEGO Robolab.
Not to forget all the visual programming RAD tools, used to build quite a
few thousand database clients in the business world.
--
Dr. Julian "a tribble took it " Gomez
mailto:jeg@polished-pixels.com ** http://www.polished-pixels.com
member of original Apple Computer QuickDraw 3-D development team
former Chief Scientist, LEGO A/S, SPU-Darwin
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| In addition there are versions of ladder logic which are used in PLCs in millions of industrial applications. I would classify ladder logic as visual. There are also some UML (Unified Modelling Language) applications such as Rhapsody that allow you (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) There certainly is some kind of a Java implementation for RCX. I havn't used it though...most people start off with NQC (Not Quite C) which is a very good starting point...then if you need more, dump the RCX firmware and replace it with (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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