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Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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Date: 
Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:14:48 GMT
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Steve Baker wrote:
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.

That doesn't matter.  What matters is what people _perceive_... which is
why non lego tools shouldn't be allowed.   People who have more of a
computer background would _tend_ to develop better robots, and would
also tend towards using tools like NQC, and to less experienced people,
the competitive advantage that these people have which is actually
solely a result of their differences in personal background would
instead get focused towards the difference in which tools were used.



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  Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
 
(...) OK - so there are two horrible implications in what you say: 1) People who have more of a mechanical background are allowed to have a huge advantage - but people who have more of a software background have to be constrained to prevent them (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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  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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