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Originally posted by Duke 13370
The difficulty in proggramming is another challenge that a team must face, making the language easier takes away from that challenge. Our teams are supposed to overcome these hardships and thrive in them. (whether this was intended or not is questionable, but that isn't the point) We should take these difficult situations and throw them into the face of the creators, and say "look, we have conquered your efficiency and complexity problems, what do you want us to do now?".
or something like that.
the clock thing would be nice if they intend us to do a more complex autonomous program next year, though.
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A language doesnt need to be "hard" to make for a good challenge. PBasic is really just a annoying language, because of limitations in the hardware. A more featureful language gives you more capability. More capability lets you do more complex things, and is a better test of your grasp of programming concepts. The less time you spend fighting with the language the more time you can do real programming.