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Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:59:19 GMT
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On Wed, March 9, 2005 3:46 pm, Mark Tarrabain said:
> 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.
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> Yes, there is a good reason to not allow NQC. It's not produced by
> Lego. Period.
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 volunteers, who may have been trained earlier
that day.
Steve
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| (...) First off, judging the technical merit of a program of any significant degree of complexity by simply looking at the code (be it text-based or graphical) for 20 minutes or less is nonsense. The only judging of that sort that ought to occur (...) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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