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Re: RIS 2.0 Problems
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Date: 
Sun, 6 Mar 2005 06:51:33 GMT
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Steve Baker wrote:
More annoying is that the Lego tools only work on the Microsoft operating
system - and this actively discriminates against teams who might use Linux
or some other operanting system on their PC's - that effectively blocks
some teams from entering - which is massively unfair (particularly in
international competition - some non-US countries have schools that use
Linux exclusively).

That, my friend, hits the nail _SQUARELY_ on the head.  This issue could
in theory be addressed by them producing a new, completely platform
independant development environment (perhaps itself being done in Java,
so that it would work everywhere Java works, at least).

Simply allowing NQC would reflect poorly on Lego because NQC could be
perceived by people to offer a competitive advantage over Lego's
standard offerings on account of NQC's higher similarity to more
contemporary programming languages.

>> Mark



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