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| Any fellow bot-builders working at Kronos, Inc., in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA? Just curious, as I start in the Engineering building tomorrow. Doug Wilcox 30 George Street Brockton, MA 02302 508-584-6853 508-284-4408 cell (23 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Forth was my second language (after Basic). The hours I spent at user group lectures sweating the fine points of stack management and memory allocation were a fabulous preparation for programming. If you survive the experience, that is. You (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) You change a bit, ask questions, re-write the code to solve the problem differently. Then go back and figure out what conceptual mistake was made the first time through. This is EXACTLY the same process you go through on a PC. (...) By trying (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) It's a fine language as long as the potential user understands how to use dual-stack based languages/systems (ie TIL's). I suggest folks who want to learn Forth get themselves a good grounding in RPN. From there it's the same old same old with (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) The problem with learning on an embedded system is not *what* you have to learn - its *how* you have to learn it. If you make any of a dozen basic programming mistakes on an RCX, what's going to happen? Well, maybe a motor will turn on when it (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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