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Subject: 
FLL not allowing NQC
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:44:21 GMT
Original-From: 
Stephen Johnson <diordna@macintoshdevelopers.ANTISPAMnet>
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Do you guys mind if I send them an email with some of your post
snippets? I'm probably going to be assistant-coaching an FLL team next
year, and I've never used anything *but* NQC, and I don't know how to
get RoboLab.

Mark Tarrabain wrote:
NQC bears a stronger resemblance to contemporary programming languages
than Lego's development tools do, and a person who is already familiar
with programming in any real computer programming language will probably
be more productive with NQC than with Lego's tools.  This would
translate to what would be perceived by others as a competitive
advantage in using NQC, even though the actual advantage is that the
person is simply a better computer programmer, and would therefore
reflect poorly on Lego's offering of tools.




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  Re: FLL not allowing NQC
 
(...) Not at all as far as any of my comments go. I can't speak for the other posters on this subject of course. But I do think it is high time that FLL reviewed this particular rule. I have been asked a number of times if AFOLs would be interested (...) (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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NQC bears a stronger resemblance to contemporary programming languages than Lego's development tools do, and a person who is already familiar with programming in any real computer programming language will probably be more productive with NQC than (...) (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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