Subject:
|
Re: Why [no single language] is good for Mindstorms
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:23:08 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1658 times
|
| |
|
|
On Wed, January 25, 2006 4:49 pm, John Hansen wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> > However, I don't
> > agree that either LEGO's RIS software or RoboLab is unstable.
>
> Did you use RIS 1.0 and RoboLab 1.0? Did you ever try to use events in RoboLab?
> Here are links to the bugs fixed in service packs just since version 2.5 was
> released.
>
> http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/robolabatceeo/downloads/Service_Pack/servicepack1bugs.asp
>
> http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/robolabatceeo/downloads/Service_Pack/pack12bugs.asp
>
> http://www.ceeo.tufts.edu/robolabatceeo/Downloads/Service_Pack/RL254_CPatch.asp
Could be worse:
Version 3.3.7.10 (2005-10-05)
Version 3.3.7.7
Version 3.3.7.6 (2003-10-27)
Version 3.3.7.5 (2003-05-22)
Version 3.3.7.4 (2003-03-24)
Version 3.3.7.3 (2003-03-07)
Version 3.3.7.2 (2003-02-12)
Version 3.3.7.1 (2003-01-16)
Version 3.3.6.6 (2002-11-25)
Version 3.3.6.5 (2002-11-19)
Version 3.3.6.2 (2002-08-02)
Version 3.3.5.7
Version 3.3.5.6 (2002-07-12)
Version 3.3.4.5 (2002-04-09)
Version 3.3.4.4 (2002-03-19)
Version 3.3.4.2
Version 3.3.3.9 (2002-02-25)
Version 3.3.3.8 (2002-02-15)
Version 3.3.3.7 (2002-02-06) (This version was never actually released.)
Version 3.3.3.5
Version 3.3.3.4
Version 3.3.3.2 (2002-01-05)
Version 3.3.3.1 (2002-01-03)
Version 3.3.2.13 (2001-12-03)
Version 3.3.2.12 (2001-11-28)
Version 3.3.2.11 (2001-11-27)
Version 3.3.2.9
Version 3.3.2.8 (2001-11-15)
Version 3.3.2.2
Version 3.3.1.9 (2001-10-10)
Version 3.3.1.7 (2001-10-5)
Version 3.3.1.6 (2001-9-29)
Version 3.3.1.4 (2001-9-29)
Version 3.3.0.12 (2001-9-29)
Version 3.3.0.10 (2001-9-28)
Version 3.2.9.7
Version 3.2.9.6 (2001-5-22)
Version 3.2.9.4 (2001-5-21)
Version 3.2.9.0 (2001-5-20)
Version 3.2.8.2
Version 3.2.7.3
Version 3.2.7.2
These numbers brought to you by Bricxcc...
http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/bricxcc_history.htm
> > > The latter is far more beneficial to a child's learning experience than the
> > > former.
> >
> > I really want to agree here. But I can't. I'd have to ask exactly what this
> > child is trying to learn.
>
> I think it is obvious that the child (or adult) is trying to learn how to write
> programs which make their robot do what they want it to do,
I don't think that's correct. A couple years ago, I went back to college. Not
because I wanted to learn economics, but because I wanted a degree. In order to
get my degree, I had to pass an economics class. So I did.
Just because someone wants to build robots, it should NOT be assumed that they
want to learn to program. Knowing how to program is NOT required for building
robots.
> If they can't figure out how to make
> the robot work because the tool is unintelligible, slow, unstable, and buggy
> then they will quickly move on to something else (or, as is far more likely, to
> an easy to learn and use text-based language and the IDEs which support it).
It may be easier for some people to learn a text-based language, but not
everyone.
If there WAS any type of language that was "best" we wouldn't be having this
discussion.
Steve
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Why [no single language] is good for Mindstorms
|
| (...) ...snip... (...) Steve, I totally agree with you. A few remarks: 1. There doesn't exist any non-buggy programming language. 2. There doesn't exist any best language. The reason that different languages exist is that there are different people (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Why [no single language] is good for Mindstorms
|
| (...) Linux isn't a language. It's an operating system. And nobody I know uses Linux without a graphical user interface. And nobody I know programs in text-based languages at a OS command prompt using VI. Do people write posts to Lugnet by dragging (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)
|
25 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
