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Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:45:59 GMT
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William Grant <tanarrifujitsu@optusnet.com.au!nospam!>
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Bruce Hopkins wrote:
> Hi all,
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> One thing that was noticibly absent from the press releases was the
> programming language(s) that would be used for NXT robots. Since
> NXT seems to be an addition to the Mindstorms family (and not a
> replacement for the RCX) I would assume that Lego will be
> supporting REAL programming languages like Java/J2ME and C/C++.
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> Do anyone have any ideas on the programming languages that may be
> used?
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> Thanks,
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> Bruce
Doesn't it say that a LabVIEW derivative will be used? Something like
RoboLab is better than the previous Mindstorms software, but surely
they will make it easy to do proper programming?
It is unlikely that Java would be an option, as implementing a Java VM
would create massive overhead. Java is not ideal for low powered,
embedded devices. C would not require any VM, as it is compiled into
native machine code.
Still, a LabVIEW solution is much better than the previously provided
ones.
William.
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| (...) GCC already contains a backend for the ARM7 CPU used in the NXT (the tech specs on the lego page say its an ARM7) so, assuming TLC releases the hardware specs somehow (or someone reverse engineers them and figures them out which is quite (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| Hi William, (...) I'm pretty sure the official language also uses a VM like on RCX and Spybots, so there you have your "massive overhead". Lejos is a good approximation of a Java VM in the RCX, and the NXT has 2 to 10 times as much memory depending (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Mindstorms NXT programming languages
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| Hi all, One thing that was noticibly absent from the press releases was the programming language(s) that would be used for NXT robots. Since NXT seems to be an addition to the Mindstorms family (and not a replacement for the RCX) I would assume (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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