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Re: About firmwares
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:02:03 GMT
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lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Steve Baker) writes:
Juergen Stuber wrote:

...what's *great* about it is
that it allows you to write (not-quite) C programs

I think it's "not quite" in the control structures
but "very little" in the data structures.

Yes...and no...the control structures (which include
parallelism) are somewhat more than C has in *some* ways
- but you are certainly right about data structures - which
are limited to 16 bit integers and (with version 2.x firmware)
small arrays.  That's not the fault of NQC though - it's due
entirely to the horrible limitations of the Lego Firmware.

Yes.

Personally, I think a beginner should start with NQC

Yes, I did that too.

and progress to LegOS and a full GCC implementation.

I'd make that Lejos, and LegOS only if I need that last
bit of performance, and I have a lot of time for programming.

Jürgen

--
Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/



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(...) Yes...and no...the control structures (which include parallelism) are somewhat more than C has in *some* ways - but you are certainly right about data structures - which are limited to 16 bit integers and (with version 2.x firmware) small (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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