[MuskieProgramme]

Thanks for all the advice! We have decided to use Java, as our mentor knows both Java and C++, and the FTC Team will continue to produce Java programmers.

I will look into Command Based programming. It seems very similar to a system I was imagining implementing for FTC, until LinearOpMode was updated to be less irritating. I've installed eclipse (& all the 2016 stuff), and have started to take a look at the sample robot code. It's not particularly difficult to navigate eclipse and it seems similar enough to IntelliJ that I won't have many problems.