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Originally posted by Rickertsen2
We are a rookie team. Programming the basic stamp is well... to basic. I hate the thing with vengence. Its way too slow and has no buffers. Not to mention it has no support for any advanced programming stuff whatsoever. I don't see it as a challenge because its not a challenge. i just see it as letting me spend more of my time doing more programming and less time overcoming language difecencies. The BasicX is simple yet powerful. I don't understand why so many people see a new processor as some sort of taboo.
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That's exactly the purpose behind it. What you call overcoming language defficiancies is the challence of PBasic. Yeah, you could write a robot program in C++, but wouldn't that make the robot function too easy and too capable? I'm not disagreeing that it would be nice to have more power, but as a veteran programmer of 4 years, I've developed a love/hate relationship with the basic stamp, and am beyond fluent in PBasic. Aside from which, going back a few more years, even the IFI equipment we have now is far more advanced than anything prior. My guess and hope is FIRST will not change to anything too different, especially given all the support Innovation First has provided over the past few years. Besides, autonomous mode with a Basic Stamp is part of the fun
