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Originally posted by Mark Hamilton
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.
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Personally, I see the language and the controls hardware as a limitation. Much like how the mech side is limited to what materials it can use, we're given a limit to make it a little more challenging. Our task is to do our best with what we have.
Normally, I would say it's also cheaper this way, but seeing as how I myself have gotten several free samples from Microchip.com, I don't think it would be terribly hard to get either free or cheap processors from them in large quantities.
Overall, I think the control system does need to adjust with the times, I just don't think that time has quite come yet.