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Rob Antonishen wrote: > > P.S. Anyone coming with an NXT "demonstration" t-o-w bot, since they > are not allowed to compete? > I ~would~ BUT......I !HATE! the GUI programing software. (Yes I know it was designed for kids, and I understand that I am (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, you could call it the rtlToronto nXt-Prize. A prize for the first person to write an IDE and compiler that Chris (and for that matter me, since I would like one) likes. Prizes to include a Supercar and a Sopwith Camel? Oh wait...wrong (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Um, but... isn't that *also* a language developed for kids ;-)? Duck and cover, duck and cover... (...) Dang, that's a nice hit-list of "people both smarter than me and that I am deeply indebted to". It amazing how far and wide the RCX has (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Chris, Have you seen/tried RobotC yet? I have been toying around with it (after trying NBC for oh... 10 minutes then giving up - Assembly is not my forte) and it is much like BriXCC / NQC. C#-based and works quite well. I am in the midst of (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Dave, I did download it, never really started to get into it. I saw it was trial-ware. While I can appreciate Dick wanted to recoup something for his effort, I still have a dream. BASIC for the lego Pbricks. GUI is great for kids, and C is (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Chris, Fair enough. I thought you were a NQC fan/user, that is why I mentioned it. I too would welcome something VB/VBscript-like based as well. Oddly, I have done some PDA app development and would only use VB to do it as it comes naturtally (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It is an ARM based thing, so if the internals are well known enough, maybe GCC can be made to compile for it as a target. I suppose it would just be targetting the arm, and then finding the right stuff to upload the code. Then comes the (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Dave, NQC is not at all like C#. Neither is RobotC. Are you sure that is what you mean? John Hansen (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It will not be long before I will have a few high level languages working within BricxCC for the NXT. I am working on Basic, Pascal, and C at the moment. I hope that in the mean time you might try out NBC which isn't particularly hard to (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Here's what I want: a) An environment that works like BricXCC that allows for edit, debug and compile from a graphical front end. b) A language which looks like C and supports proper function/variable passing (UNLIKE NQC). Not C#, not BASIC, (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) A NXT-C compiler which supports every NXT feature will not likely be done by BrickFest. I hope to have a first cut with partial support for the NXT features working within a couple weeks. My intent would be to incrementally add support for all (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Sorry. C# was a bad example. Let me us the term "somethink like C". Dave (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I think that $25,000 should inspire someone to write a basic compiler that spits out NXT Byte code. You could even get by if the compiler was written based using a non-enterprise version of basic. Lamar A retired system programmer/analyst "Chris (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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