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Re: How much of WPILib is required for robot code to be legal?

It's all about the learning. That is why I offered up the lower level details. In my opinion, learning to read the code of others and understand why it was written that way is probably the single most critical skill for a programmer to develop.

Rarely is code perfect, and even if it is, there are alternatives which are likely just as good or better based on the judgement criteria. Being able to read WPILib well enough to improve upon it or discuss alternate implementations may be the reason why it was distributed as source code ... in several different languages.

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