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Re: About firmwares
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lugnet.robotics
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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.
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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 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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