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Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:04:27 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Mark Tarrabain wrote:
> 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.
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 sell on their website a tutorial for programming LEGO robots using NQC
with BricxCC.
John Hansen
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Message has 1 Reply: | | Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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| If one allows things that are not produced or distributed by lego, then why can't one use non-official sensors? Why can't one drop the entire default firmware? Heck, why does a person even have to use the RCX in the first place and not a more robust (...) (20 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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