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Re: lack of interest in basic stamp and basicx
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Date: 
Tue, 23 Nov 1999 20:41:04 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Jonathan Perret) writes:
I don't mean to say that NQC is not an outstanding tool, I just
don't understand why people who are ready to mess with electronics
to build homemade sensors don't take the plunge and code directly
to the metal...

Let me give you my reasons: right now, legOS is difficult to set up and get
running (at least 0.2.2 from W98), while I experience Forth a little "strange"
yet (= a totaly different metaphor, it takes time to adjust to it).

Adding to that, it is a challenge in itself to make something useful with a
clumsy tool! ;-)

take care
/Vlad



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  Re: lack of interest in basic stamp and basicx
 
(...) I can't speak about LegOS, but I thought this about FORTH too, and it aint so. Once you get over the syntax it’s a straightforward procedural language. Jonathan Knudsen’s book has a good chapter on it that I found very helpful in getting (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) What I've always wondered about the Basic Stamp is why anyone would want to use Basic to program an microcontroller. I love Basic but when coding for a robot I want to take full advantage of the hardware, and that means programming it in Forth (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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