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Re: Something else is needed, I think...
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 2 May 1999 19:51:57 GMT
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stephen p spackman <STEPHEN@ACM.ORGstopspam>
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Mark Tarrabain wrote:
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> I'm just wondering how many people agree with me on this point...
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> I think that another code development system is needed for the RCX.
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> Why?
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> Well, it seems like everything that's already out there is either
> overkill (legos, pbforth for rcx), or suffers from limitations imposed
> by the standard rcx firmware (mindstorms, nqc, et al).
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> I believe that in terms of complexity, something halfway between legos
> and nqc is needed.
Well, that was what I thought, and I set out to do such a thing way back
at the beginning. But the lack of enthusiasm was amazing (possibly not
for the basic concept; the alternative hypothesis is that, since I'm a
programming language designer and wanted to do things "right" there was
a lot of, "er, that's not the sort of language I'm used to." Maybe
that's really what was going on; I know I got some reactions of the form
"this is WAY too complex", when the language is, by design,
significantly simpler than current languages.). Stupid really; I got an
RCX mostly to do that, and in the end it's just stayed in the box while
I've done other things.
You'll also find there's a lot of hostility if you want to *discuss*
what would be a good language here.
stephen
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| (...) If you believe you have good ideas for a language, my opinion is that you should propose something to the list, find people who want to work with you on this (assuming you don't want to work alone), ignore the people who say you know nothing (...) (26 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I'm just wondering how many people agree with me on this point... I think that another code development system is needed for the RCX. Why? Well, it seems like everything that's already out there is either overkill (legos, pbforth for rcx), or (...) (26 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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