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RE: Why java is (not) bad for Mindstorms
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:34:39 GMT
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Laurent Desnogues <laurent.desnogues@arm.com*NoSpam*>
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dan miller wrote:
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> I agree. I think the barriers are artificial, and really
> only benefit those
> who might prefer their alchemy to be abstruse and difficult
> to master. It
> allows them to be high priests of the inpenetrable incantation.
>
> Mathematics didn't flourish beyond a very small, gifted and privileged
> minority, until people stopped trying to use Roman Numerals
> to calculate.
> Similarly, I suspect we will see a day when literacy in
> computing -- ie,
> ability to program computers -- is ubiquitous among any population not
> stricken by war or poverty.
You should try very high level math... So yes every
effort should be made to ease learning but definitel, as
others said, one language won't fit everyone needs, because
those needs can really be way too different.
Laurent
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