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Re: P-brick Script code terminology
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Fri, 7 Apr 2000 04:49:46 GMT
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Some sort of brick metaphor would work for me.
Dennis
Ian Warfield wrote:
> Conrad,
>
> LEGO does refer to series of commands as 'stacks'. This comes from the
> Robotics Invention System RCX Code interface where a program is a
> literal 'stack' of instruction blocks; those who haven't used RCX Code much
> wouldn't recognize the reference. I honestly don't know why they
> chose 'stack' either; it's caused many people confusion. Although I can't
> think of an appropriate alternative term to use in its place. Hmm.
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> Ian Warfield
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> In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Conrad Venn writes:
> > Perhaps someone can clarify this for me...
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> > I've been looking at the LEGO P-brick Script code language documentation that
> > comes with the RIS 2.0 SDK PreAlpha.
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> > I was initially confused by the numerous references to program stacks.
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> > Does 'stack' here simply mean a series of program instructions? It seems that
> > it must.
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> > It's just that in my limited (26 years) experience of programming, 'stack' has
> > always meant a data structure and not code.
>
> [...]
> >
> > Conrad
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