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Re: Programming Languages
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Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:43:33 GMT
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From the Pitsco-Dacta online catalog, the current version of ROBOLAB ver 2.0
is W90051 and is called 'ROBOLAB Investigator'. It includes the Programmer
software (which I hope is the full version). It costs US$59.00. But the
catalog material is sort of confusing. Can someone confirm that I have it
right?
Where would I find the manual? Does not seem to be on the page:
http://www.pldstore.com/pitsco2/catalog.cfm?dest=dir&linkid=45&linkon=subsection&orderid=ID142115312177698656
I used LabView many years ago when it first came out (on Macintosh). It was
superb then and I am glad to see it ...survives!
Jerry
In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Ben Erwin writes:
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> I can only speak from experience about programming languages that use the
> standard firmware, since that's all I've used.
>
> *Spirit.OCX (I've used VB and J++): The worst way to program in the standard
> firmware. non-intuitive syntax (even if you replace the numbers with
> variable
> names). lot's of ugly periods hanging around. I only learned/used this
> when I
> was making VB programs for all of the robots in my book and putting them
> onto
> the CD-ROM. Other than that I never use it. I'm sure some of the GUI
> interfaces that people have made for use with the Spirit are pretty good,
> but I
> haven't checked them out for more than a minute each.
>
> *RCX Code: Graphical. OCX dependency. The easiest way to write a
> quick-and-dirty sequential, simple-multitasking, and simple looping kinds of
> programs. Not good for much else. Good for kids with low motor
> skills/attention span. No variables (yet) besides a simple counter.
>
> *NQC: There are some things that you can do with NQC that you can't do with
> ROBOLAB (I'm not sure exactly what - maybe someone else can elaborate).
> Good
> if you're already used to C. I first learned NQC when I translated all of
> Dave's programs for his first book into ROBOLAB for his CD-ROM (check 'em
> out,
> I included jpg's too). It took me a week, and it wasn't a pleasant
> experience
> because I find ROBOLAB much more intuitive.
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> *ROBOLAB: Graphical, like a flowchart. Written in LabVIEW. No OCX
> dependency.
> The best standard firmware solution in my _biased_ opinion. There are
> things
> that you can do with ROBOLAB that you can't do with NQC (in an
> out-of-the-box
> sense): Internet Communication, Graphing, Calculations on Data, Turn
> programs
> into Web pages, etc. Very intuitive.
>
> For non-standard-firmware languages, there is YBL (yellow brick logo) from
> the
> media lab, legOS, pbForth, ... ??
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| I can only speak from experience about programming languages that use the standard firmware, since that's all I've used. *Spirit.OCX (I've used VB and J++): The worst way to program in the standard firmware. non-intuitive syntax (even if you (...) (26 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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