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Re: Programming the RCX...
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Mon, 9 Apr 2001 11:31:19 GMT
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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 to model the application in total detail and it will
then generate the code based on the model. I don't know how good the code
produced is, but if your model is correct then all being well, the code
should also be correct ;-? (in an ideal theoretical world.)
IMHO it depends on the application and the programmer. I for one usually use
legOS for most of my programming as I like C, but for simple stuff to test
the very basic functionality of a robot, I will still sometimes use the
Mindstorms software as you can program stuff quickly in it - kind of like a
meta-language.
Mike
In lugnet.robotics, Julian Gomez <jeg@polished-pixels.com> writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> In the Mindstorms arena, Labview is known as LEGO Robolab.
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> Not to forget all the visual programming RAD tools, used to build quite a
> few thousand database clients in the business world.
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