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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@ANTISPAMmacintoshdevelopers.net>
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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.
> 



Message has 1 Reply:
  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 (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: RIS 2.0 Problems
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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