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Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Language war in 32k RAM
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 8 Mar 2005 01:32:18 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.*nospam*net>
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Michael Obenland wrote:
> This thread made my day. Really!
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> In the end, the brick is an embedded system with a whopping 32k of RAM,
> mostly filled up by the operating system. For me (ok, I admit, I want to
> drive the war a bit further...) even c++ has too much overhead to be
> used for my brickOS programs.
That's true - but NQC is eminently usable.
> Real programmers don't use Pascal!
For those who don't catch that reference:
http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/comp/humor1.html
> (real programmers even don't use assemblers but code directly in hex)
(I actually have keyed a short program into a PDP-11 using the front
panel switches - so I guess I qualify - but I should point out that the
'Real Programmers' paper was not intended to recommend 'Real Programmer'
as a career path!)
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| This thread made my day. Really! In the end, the brick is an embedded system with a whopping 32k of RAM, mostly filled up by the operating system. For me (ok, I admit, I want to drive the war a bit further...) even c++ has too much overhead to be (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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