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Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:46:59 GMT
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John Hansen wrote:
Is there a good reason to allow MindScript and not NQC?  No.  With MindScript
and LASM you can do anything you can do with NQC.  But there are *very* few
experienced MindScript programmers out there to teach the language to FLL team
members.

Yes, there is a good reason to not allow NQC.  It's not produced by
Lego.  Period.



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  Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
 
On Wed, March 9, 2005 3:46 pm, Mark Tarrabain said: (...) Dean touched on another good reason. It's much easier to judge GUI programs (Robolab & RIS) than text-based languages. In some cases, the judges are NOT programmers, or engineers, they are (...) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
 
(...) That's not a good reason at all. Robolab was not actually produced by LEGO. They happen to sell it on their website and they "partnered" with the actual producers of the software, Tufts University and National Instruments. They also happen to (...) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
 
(...) But not one single eensy-weensy bit of NQC ends up in the robot - it's just a tool. This is the HUGE misunderstanding that people seem to have. NQC *isn't* somehow loaded into the robot. Are you telling me that I can't use any TOOLS that (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
 
(...) Is there a good reason to allow MindScript and not NQC? No. With MindScript and LASM you can do anything you can do with NQC. But there are *very* few experienced MindScript programmers out there to teach the language to FLL team members. (...) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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